"The amount of writing that people do online……" — Clive Thompson

"The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented."

— Clive Thompson

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19 Quotes by Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a…
Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.
Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking…
PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale…
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.
As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to…
A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other…
We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall…
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way…
Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it.…
Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires…

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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of… — Neil Armstrong
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they… — Neil Armstrong
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just… — Amitabh Bachchan
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't… — David Bailey
But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did… — Christian Bale
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac

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