“Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.”

“Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.”

“My style was to absorb all the data I could to make the best-informed decision possible, sometimes to the point of over-analysis.”

“[Yahoo! ] found the way to destroy the most massive amount of history in the shortest amount of time with absolutely no recourse.”

“How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?”

“It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.”

“I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.”

“I passed an entire night in mental turmoil. Ultimately, I decided to take the plunge without even informing my family.”

“[Task uncertainty is] the difference between the amount of information required to perform the task and the amount of information already possessed by the organisation.”

“My experience indicates that most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload. They must spend a great deal of time separating the relevant documents. For example, I have found that I receive an average of 43 hours of unsolicited reading material each week. The solicited material is usually half again this amount.”