Comments on: Information Overload is like Drinking from a Firehose

By: Andrew Lampert

Andrew Lampert — Wed, 23 May 2007 06:02:22 +0000

I know Mitch Kapor has also been attributed with the quote ““Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”

Not sure whether that predates David Shenk’s use of a similar phrase in his book. Obviously, it doesn’t predate the alternate usage of the phrase at MIT suggested by Chris.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:06:40 +0000

drinking from a firehose has been an analogy for the tough courses at MIT since at least the seventies, perhaps much much earlier.

By: Cordelya

Cordelya — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:33:30 +0000

Quote: Information Overload

“Information overload is like drinking from a firehose” I got it from Email Overloaded. Further credits can be found by following the link….

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:18:42 +0000

I think the analogy of “drinking from a fire hose” goes back to David Shenk who used it in his book “Data Smog”. Although rather old still a nice read.