Quote by Nicholas Carr Download Open image ““How do users read on the web?” he asked then. His succinct answer: “They don’t.”38”” — Nicholas Carr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.” — Nick Cohen Copy Share Image
“Ask questions while you read—questions that you yourself must try to answer in the course of reading.” — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of… — Gerry McGovern Copy Share Image
“when you add verbiage to a page, you can assume that customers will read 18% of it.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they… — Jay Chiat Copy Share Image
I said, 'Well, how much space do I have?' And they said, 'Well, you know, it's the Internet.' — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
“...readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions...” — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“What I love about many web pages, is the comments section, they make laugh, just by reading what people say there” — Kimberly Loskov Copy Share Image
“I read a lot, searching for answers in someone else's words.” — M. Sophie Schneider Copy Share Image
“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been at the… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: we are evolving from being cultivators of personal… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“As long as algorithms determine the distribution of profits, they will also determine what gets published. The” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“those with the helpful software were found “to aimlessly click around” as they tried to crack the puzzle.27” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“What is different, and troubling, is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of reading. Once a means to an end, a way to… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“They failed to appreciate how the network would funnel the energies of the people into a centrally administered, tightly monitored information system organized to… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Personal memory shapes and sustains the “collective memory” that underpins culture.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“The near-continuous stream of new information pumped out by the Web also plays to our natural tendency to “vastly overvalue what happens to us… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“The strip-mining of “relevant content” replaces the slow excavation of meaning. IT” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
