Victor Segell

“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.”
― Herbert A. Simon

“Our friend and colleague Marsha Linehan often says, “Emotions love themselves.” Feeling down tends to elicit actions that are consistent with feeling down.”
― Christopher R. Martell, Behavioral Activation for Depression: A Clinician's Guide

“What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: we are evolving from being cultivators of personal knowledge to being hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest.  ”
― Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains