With all the abundance we have of computers and computing…

The supreme application of human attention is to be a vessel to carry awe.

— Etsko Schuitema

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

— Kevin Kelly

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the…

— James A. Baldwin

Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as…

— Gary Wolf

“Antonina felt convinced that people needed to connect more with their animal nature, but also that animals long for human company, reach out for…

— Diane Ackerman

I have heard that the most valuable thing in today's world, postindustrial world, is the human being's attention and how to get it.

— Paul Solman

“This is the portrait of the future customers—connected yet distracted. A survey by the National Center for Biotechnological Information shows that the average human…

— Philip Kotler

Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it,…

— Tom Vanderbilt

In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the…

— Satya Nadella

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

— Edsger Dijkstra

At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to…

— Bill Gates

The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting…

— J. C. R. Licklider

Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can…

— Thomas Friedman

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition…

— Samuel Johnson