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The earliest use of this quote is by John Naisbitt (www.naisbitt.com/) in his 1982 book Megatrends - he wrote

"we are drowning in information, but we are starved for knowledge".

(thanks to Gary Gumenyuk and Luis Aburto Lafourcade)

In 1985, Rutherford D. Rogers, a librarian at Yale, was quoted in New York Times:

"We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge."

Thanks to Shuki (Yizhak) Idan, Mojtaba Kasaiyan, Indir Jaganjac, and martyells.