"We use paper documents to store knowledge so……" — Clive Thompson
"We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds."
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Clive Thompson
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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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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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Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires…
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More Consult Quotes
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home…
— Dale Carnegie
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You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations…
— Benjamin Carson
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The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
— Alexander Pope
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
— John Milton
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your…
— Seneca the Younger
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For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to…
— Remy de Gourmont
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Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not…
— William James
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There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he…
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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