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.

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

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.

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 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.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.

Did you write the words, or the lyrics?

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.