more memory is not generally better
more memory is not generally better
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
In the book
We want every duck in a tidy, evenly spaced, aesthetically pleasing row before we will waddle anywhere. But the row never comes, and the waiting costs more than we think — past a point, more time, more memory, and more data do not sharpen the judgment, they dull it. The professional's discipline is the opposite of paralysis: he refuses to tolerate disorder, eliminates chaos from his workspace so as to banish it from his mind, and finds that the organization is what frees him to act and create. — Takeoff Into Chaos