Nicholas Carr

“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been…

— Nicholas Carr

“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.”

— Nicholas Carr

“What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: we are evolving from being cultivators…

— Nicholas Carr

“As long as algorithms determine the distribution of profits, they will also determine what gets published. The”

— Nicholas Carr

“those with the helpful software were found “to aimlessly click around” as they tried to crack the puzzle.27”

— Nicholas Carr

“Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.”

— Nicholas Carr

“What is different, and troubling, is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of reading. Once a means to an end, a…

— Nicholas Carr

“They failed to appreciate how the network would funnel the energies of the people into a centrally administered, tightly monitored information system…

— Nicholas Carr

“In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Personal memory shapes and sustains the “collective memory” that underpins culture.”

— Nicholas Carr

“The near-continuous stream of new information pumped out by the Web also plays to our natural tendency to “vastly overvalue what happens…

— Nicholas Carr

“The strip-mining of “relevant content” replaces the slow excavation of meaning.   IT”

— Nicholas Carr

“The Net grants us instant access to a library of information unprecedented in its size and scope, and it makes it easy…

— Nicholas Carr

“A 1989 study showed that readers of hypertext often ended up clicking distractedly “through pages instead of reading them carefully.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Activities of self-realization are subject to increasing marginal utility:”

— Nicholas Carr

“Calm, focused, undistracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take…

— Nicholas Carr

“Experiments show that just as the brain can build new or stronger circuits through physical or mental practice, those circuits can weaken…

— Nicholas Carr

“The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory, but when we start using the Web as a substitute for…

— Nicholas Carr

“There needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to…

— Nicholas Carr

“takes a delay of just 250 milliseconds in page loading for people to start abandoning a site.”

— Nicholas Carr

“information is a commodity that can be processed by a machine.”

— Nicholas Carr

“The Net is, by design, an interruption system, a machine geared for dividing attention.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Late in his life, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith coined the term “innocent fraud.” He used it to describe a lie or…

— Nicholas Carr

“As more journals moved online, scholars actually cited fewer articles than they had before.”

— Nicholas Carr

“It’s dubious and dangerous, Drucker is saying, to mistake what’s measurable for what’s important.”

— Nicholas Carr