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

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.

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.

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

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.

Eternal purpose can be viewed only through the light of God

When we begin to see the equality of our biology then our ideology is exposed,

Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.

God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

I don't worry about things I can't control.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s.

My father speaks for himself, through his music.