I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.

In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the ways we think.

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

At the end of the day, you control your happiness at peace.

What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?’‘You are saving your family.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.

Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.

On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy Krueger. Granuaile MacTiernan

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.