“What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading..”
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Edward R. Tufte3
American statistician (b.1942) noted for his writings on in… 1942Related quotes
Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) Nepali poet
पण्डित लेखनाथ पौड्यालको विषयमा (On the subject of Pandit Lekhnath Paudyal)
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) Scientist
Source: 1960s, Management misinformation systems, 1967, p. 148.
Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992) Austrian and British economist and Nobel Prize for Economics laureate
1980s and later, "Two Pages of Fiction" (1982)
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 111
“The cure to information overload is more information.”
David Weinberger (1950) American philosopher
The cure to information overload is more information. http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/004037.html, Hyperorg.com (2005-05-24)
“Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 132
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Variant: Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Source: Walden and Other Writings
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant: Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity.
From discord find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Source: The Quotable Einstein
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
Interview All Songs Considered, NPR, May 20, 2008