“As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.” — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.” — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“Words in the head are sticky and social creatures – when you finally pull one out, you're liable to get lots of bits of… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“Robbed of a rapt audience, advertisers know that influencing how you spend what to do while depends on having some control over how you… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.” — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.” — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“Learning to be aware of what you unconsciously know may depend on a line of focused effort and specialized knowledge and even some measure… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.” — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“You might think of the barrier between fiction and reality as being a bit like a blood-brain barrier, which allows only some kinds of… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“When the marketplace became crowded with scores of similar products that mostly did what they were supposed to do, companies focused less on selling… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
