#overload

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#capabilities #educational #faculties #happens #innate

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#cope #effects #electric #habitually #information

Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it. ↗

— David Rose

#comes #coordinating #feel #feeling #i

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#bible #burden #dose #handbook #keeping

...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention... ↗

— Herbert A. Simon

#information-overload #inspirational #science #inspirational

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#ballads #be careful #been #careful #days

Love is alright for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss!! ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#psychic-overload #love

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#new-media #social-media #media

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#cling #freely #handle #make #melody

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#became #beta #download #early #had