Herbert Simon: “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.” (Computers, Communications and the Public Interest, pages 40-41, Martin Greenberger, ed., The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon
另外,今天用Amazon.com,發現很多書多了Text Stats的功能。書裡那些字用得最多,是不是很複雜,全都一目了然。下面就用我最喜歡的Thinking Sociologically作例子:




