In Joel on Software’s post on Choices = Headaches Joel refers to Barry Schwartz’s book The Paradox of Choice:
The more choices you give people, the harder it is for them to choose, and the unhappier they’ll feel. See, for example, Barry Schwartz’s book, The Paradox of Choice. Let me quote from the Publishers Weekly review: [...]

I was just reading Paul Graham’s Mind the Gap (still not done). He was talking about wealth vs. money. It reminded me of a realization I had just the other day, so I thought I would share it with all of you!
All the time I would hear people saying that there was unlimited [...]