Nicholas G. Carr

A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

— Nicholas G. Carr

There are a whole lot of reasons to be very happy that our brains are able to adapt and adapt so readily…

— Nicholas G. Carr

By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the…

— Nicholas G. Carr

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

— Nicholas G. Carr

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

— Nicholas G. Carr

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence…

— Nicholas G. Carr

One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were…

— Nicholas G. Carr

Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain…

— Nicholas G. Carr

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

— Nicholas G. Carr

In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are…

— Nicholas G. Carr

The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the…

— Nicholas G. Carr

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming…

— Nicholas G. Carr

You can take a book to the beach without worrying about sand getting in its works. You can take it to bed…

— Nicholas G. Carr

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

— Nicholas G. Carr

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

— Nicholas G. Carr

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to…

— Nicholas G. Carr

“[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and…

— Nicholas G. Carr

“The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into…

— Nicholas G. Carr

I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.

— Nicholas G. Carr

Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties…

— Nicholas G. Carr

The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this…

— Nicholas G. Carr

“What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my…

— Nicholas G. Carr

When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with…

— Nicholas G. Carr

“The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything upon you. Only it…

— Nicholas G. Carr

In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending.…

— Nicholas G. Carr