The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

This is hard to accept in the age of the Internet. It has been very hard for me to explain that the more data you get, the less you know what’s going on, and the more iatrogenics you will cause. People are still under the illusion that “science” means more data.

Too much information creates the same result as too little:

"This is hard to accept in the age of the Internet. It has been very hard for me to explain that the more data you get, the less you know whats going on, and the more iatrogenics you will cause. People are still under the illusion that science means more data." - Taleb

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

Today’s companies have an insatiable appetite for data, mistakenly believing that more data always creates more value. But big data is usually dumb data.

We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we’re well versed in the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information. We have come to confuse information with understanding.

Too much information creates the same result as too little: you don't have what you need, when and in the way you need it.

If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

The more a lie contains truth, the more it is evil.

In deep learning, there’s no data like more data. The more examples of a given phenomenon a network is exposed to, the more accurately it can pick out patterns and identify things in the real world.

Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

One of the great besetting problems of the modern age is what to do with too much information.