"Too much information, and so much of it lost. An unindexed Internet site is the same in limbo as a misshelved library book. This is why the successful and powerful business enterprises of the information economy are built on filtering and searching. Even Wikipedia is a combination of the two: powerful searching, mainly driven by Google, and a vast, collaborative filter, driving to gather the true facts and screen out the false ones. Searching and filtering are all that stand between this world and the Library of Babel."
- James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
