Books Quote by Nicholas Carr Download Open image ““We are how we read.”” — Nicholas Carr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Read Writer
“We are defined not so much by what we're reading, as by what we're reading next.” — Julia Keller 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
