Overabundance Quotes:

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.

- Herbert Simon

source: "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World". "Communication, and the Public Interest". Book by Martin Greenberger, pp. 40-41, 1971.

topic: Spiritual, Science, Interesting, Overabundance, Information Overload

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

- Clarence Jordan

topic: Wise, Needs, Charity, Overabundance, Coworker

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

- Tom Waits

source: "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

topic: Confused, Gun, Weight, Singer-songwriters, Overabundance

I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to the end. It's like we've found a way to encapsulate all of human knowledge within one thing only to learn that you can't do that. It's an overabundance of information.

- Jarvis Cocker

source: Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

topic: Book, Information, Way, Overabundance

The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

- Eric Johnston

topic: Food, Lessons, Dinosaurs, Overabundance

There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Dog, Animal, Suffering, Overabundance, Causes Of Global Warming

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

- Jack McDevitt

topic: Wine, Imagination, Demon, Overabundance

This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was making a completely different garden than the one that my mom has. They don't look like they came from relatives. Hers is a very productive and pragmatic vegetable garden, and mine is a ridiculous overabundance of useless plants. It doesn't feed anybody, it doesn't serve any purpose.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

topic: Mom, Daughter, Mother, Overabundance, Vegetable Garden

Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.23, Canongate Books

topic: Love, Blessing, Qualms About, Qualms, Incapacity

I still like weird music but there's such an overabundance that it's hard for me to stay enthusiastic about it.

- Girl Talk

source: Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

topic: Enthusiastic, Stills, Overabundance

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

- Ashley Montagu

topic: Time, Not Good Enough, Humanity, Overabundance, Insufficiency

People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

source: "Jamie Lee Curtis Comes Clean". Interview with Andrew Eccles, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 3, 2010.

topic: People, Trying, Needs, Overabundance

If there is an ‘overabundance’ of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action - which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate - then action disfavoring that idea might ‘un-skew,’ rather than skew, public discourse.

- Elena Kagan

source: "Kagan Argued for Government 'Redistribution of Speech'" by Matt Cover, www.cnsnews.com. May 11, 2010.

topic: Overabundance, Public Discourse

Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are those "metaphotographers" who can make sense of the billions of images being made and can provide context and authenticate them. We need curators to filter this overabundance more than we need new legions of photographers.

- Fred Ritchin

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Views, Surveillance Cameras, Google, Photojournalism, Overabundance

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

- Susan Sarandon

topic: School, Originality, Sin, Original Sin, Overabundance