"When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it……" — Clive Thompson

"When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity."

— 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…
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…
The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
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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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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