Books Quote by Leah Price

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust

“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible…

— Andrew Clements

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

“Information can get from a professors lecture notes and into a student's notebook without passing through the mind of either.”

— Douglas Wilson

“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

— Tom Stoppard

“The accumulated research into quantum physics has begun to explain how the mind, or consciousness, has always played a major role in determining our…

— David Cowan

“Designers can learn from library science. In trying to deliver information, what are the cognitive frameworks or resistances to absorbing information? We're always trying…

— Kim Baer

It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on…

— Terence McKenna

“It has never yet been supposed, that all the facts of nature, and all the means of acquiring precision in the computation and analysis…

— Marquis de Condorcet

What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from…

— Louise Erdrich

“the data emerging from the quantum physics field suggests some vital, not-yet-understood verity about how the mind interplays with the surrounding world.”

— Mitch Horowitz