"I worry that the level of interrupt, the……" — Eric Schmidt
"I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — is in fact affecting cognition. It is in fact affecting deeper thinking. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
And I worry that we’re losing that."
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113 Quotes by Eric Schmidt
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