"America has always had tinkerers, including just about……" — Clive Thompson
"America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro."
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19 Quotes by Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson has 19 quotes on this site.
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That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a…
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Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.
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Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking…
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PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale…
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When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
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Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.
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As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to…
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A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other…
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We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall…
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The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
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There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way…
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Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it.…
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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