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.

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 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.

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.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung

The problem is, we always want to pay the prices we can afford.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard.

The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you

When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.