Quote by Nicholas Carr Download Open image ““their eyes skipping down the page in a pattern that resembled, roughly, the letter F.”” — Nicholas Carr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Oh, but clever words On pages turn to fragments, circles, points and lines And they cover them like carpets With graceful, meaningless, ornamental designs” — Aaron Weiss Copy Share Image
“Plus, the dots are typically very faint, so the book actually looks blank from far away—which means that people who glance at your journal… — Rachel Wilkerson Miller Copy Share Image
“Inside these letters, the eye will see Nearby are your friends, and VFD.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“I fix the cramped, lined pages with my curious stare. How do you come to exist?” — Kiera Woodhull Copy Share Image
“The sneaky heftiness of the book being the aggregate cumulative effect of hundreds of thousands of individually insubstantial little markings, letters and numbers, commas… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“The pages were yellowed and had gone to brown at the edges. They were brittle, much like the memories the photos evoked.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it amazing how we take them for granted? Those little black marks on paper. Twenty-six different shapes known as letters, arranged in endless… — Kevin Horsley Copy Share Image
“I mentally began composing a list of words that began with F: Frey. Father. False. Friend. Frick. Frack. And some others.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.” — J.L. Bond 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
