# Quotes

**URL:** <https://discuss.88.io/t/quotes/170>\
**Category:** Own AI\
**Tags:** advocacy\
**Created:** [March 31, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.88.io/t/quotes/170 "2021-03-31T13:00:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.88.io/t/quotes/170/1 "2021-03-31T13:00:00Z")

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# A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention

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In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes.

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.

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-- Herbert A. Simon (Nobel Prize 1978)

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**Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.88.io/t/quotes/170/3 "2021-03-31T21:07:40Z")

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![]()  
[![google_1](https://discuss.88.io/uploads/default/original/1X/052a4d87545e38a24959e0187ec1180b608ba032.png)](https://video.contacttrace.com.au/w/ncsGoHadG4dDSEck2HvPdH)

We know where you are.  
We know where you've been.  
We can more or less know what you're thinking about.

-- Eric Schmidt (Google)  
Washington Ideas Forum

[![google_2_no_border-2](https://discuss.88.io/uploads/default/original/1X/ed564eff656c170782d9256c710aa3fa4929bd3b.png)](https://video.contacttrace.com.au/w/eB1XQV8nYjnts6fYPaZn4B)

If you have something  
that you don't want anyone to know  
maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

-- Eric Schmidt (Google)  
CNBC Interview

[![facebook_no_border-2](https://discuss.88.io/uploads/default/original/1X/6e6f6027785db3370e1dcca1d5d49b80f4d0f60b.png)](https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a19490586/mark-zuckerberg-called-people-who-handed-over-their-data-dumb-f/)

I don't know why.  
They "trust me"  
Dumb fucks.

-- Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)  
Business Insider

[![andrew_lewis_no_border-2](https://discuss.88.io/uploads/default/original/1X/1b5f2f9af79a9c16cba35057ca9564705d25b367.png)](https://twitter.com/andlewis/status/24380177712)

If you're not paying for something,  
you're not the customer,  
you're the product being sold.

-- Andrew Lewis (CANADA)  
Twitter

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**Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.88.io/t/quotes/170/4 "2021-03-31T21:07:40Z")

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**Privacy defines the Individual.**  
If everyone knows everything, then there is no difference between anyone.

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-- 88.io Architect

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**Author:** ![admin](https://discuss.88.io/user_avatar/discuss.88.io/admin/32/38_2.png) [@admin](https://discuss.88.io/u/admin)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.88.io/t/quotes/170/5 "2022-01-09T05:32:44Z")

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# Dent in the Universe

 ![Playboy-Feb1985-page59_line](https://discuss.88.io/uploads/default/original/1X/0b5a702cb8fb844e0bbf967c5b1e4764b6ce4e08.png)

Playboy Magazine, February 1985, Page 59

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-- Steve Jobs