“Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.”
Robert Heller (1975) "Research in light of a dark tunnel" Audit AGB research. London, Spring 1973: Cited in Peter M. Chisnall (1977) Effective industrial marketing. p. 91
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“My difficulty is only an — enormous — difficulty of expression.”
Journal entry (8 March 1915) p. 40
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916

Simon, H. A. (1971) "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World" in: Martin Greenberger, Computers, Communication, and the Public Interest, Baltimore. MD: The Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 40–41.
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Source: 1960s, Management misinformation systems, 1967, p. 148.

As cited in: Merrill J. Riley (1981) Management information systems. p. 114.
1960s, Management misinformation systems, 1967

Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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