Both Pendleton and Cox say hitters can tinker too much and gather too much information.
Undoubtedly, there's a point beyond which you know you've gathered too much information.
"The top of the tree is right there, so they don't gather too much steam," Mr. Nelson explained.
They are also given a warning: those who gather too much will find that it turns to worms by the morning.
By early Tuesday morning, the cops had put the collar on a Pakistani gentleman at JFK, and as I write, hundreds of detectives and agents of the Joint Terrorism Task Force have set out to gather too much information about him.
Managers realize they need to capture and share employees' knowledge, but they often fall short because the technology they use is too complex, they gather too much extraneous data, or they don't give people incentives to share knowledge.
The system gathered too much information, the official said, not because it was flawed or experimental, but because the Internet service provider gave agents outdated settings for the tapped computers.
Under the plan, the new forces will be approved by local councils, or shuras, to ensure that they have the support of all constituencies, that old rivalries between commanders and tribes are not reactivated, and that one faction does not gather too much power to itself.
The long, curving, copper-topped bar is the kind that invites committed drinking, and off to the side sits a piano, though not the same one used by the old Rum House, which was a Broadway fixture that had gathered too much dust, in every possible sense.
Acer's founder has given a sharp warning to Google's chairman Eric Schmidt that the benefits from Android's success need to be shared throughout the "value chain" of its suppliers, after complaining that Microsoft and Intel have gathered too much of the profit from the success of Windows.
