“...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...”

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”

“Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.”

“Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.”

“The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating… even awe-inspiring, but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.”

“This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”