Only by combining data stored deep within our brains can we forge new ideas. No amount of magpie assemblage can compensate for this slow, synthetic creativity. Hyperlinks and overstimulation mean the brain must give most of its attention to short-term decisions. Little makes it through the fragile transfer into deeper processing - The Economist, http://www.economist.com/node/16423330?story_id=16423330&fsrc=scn/tw/te…
If a man reads very hard... he will have little time for thought - Robert Louis Stevenson
I was at inbox zero at 11:40am, after answering 210 emails. Now, at 21:55, 84 unread emails. FFS! Prometheus had it easy - David McCandless, http://twitter.com/mccandelish
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity - Simone Weil
...than these, especially when told so calmly and compellingly. Please spread the word...
Harvard Business Review asked this question, suggesting that while knowledge is generally a good thing, there is a point at which it may be bad: we can only comprehend so much; our minds have limits in our ability to digest information, just as shelves are only meant to hold so many books and too much knowledge can undermine the greatest insights, the deepest conjectures.
Since Monday 8 March 2010, having heard someone on BBC Radio 4 extol the joys of repeating the same walk over and over, I have decided (when I remember, or when I'm not being distracted by the antics of our dog, Jodie) to try and be present and observant during a regular walk from home, one we call "Passetemps" (the former name of a restaurant nearby), observing the minute daily changes gradually emerge into the seasonal patterns of growth, decline and rebirth.
What to do with too much information is the great riddle of our time - Theodore Zeldin
Victims of technology...have allowed the immediate to drive out the important - Clive Holtham