Data Processors // David Foster Wallace on Information
[img: Atelier Bow-Wow, Miyashita Park, Tokyo, 2011, via Detail, das Architektur Portal] ‘The common misapprehension is that a messy desk is a sign of a hard worker.’ ‘Get over the idea that your function here is to collect and process as much information as possible.’ ‘The whole mess and disorder of the desk on the left is, in fact, due to excess information.’ ‘A mess is information without value.’ ‘The whole point of cleaning off a desk is to get rid of the information you don’t want and keep the information you do want.’ ‘Who cares which candy wrapper is […]