Quote by Nicholas Carr Download Open image ““when you add verbiage to a page, you can assume that customers will read 18% of it.”” — Nicholas Carr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Let us turn over the pages, and I will add, for your amusement, a comment in the margin.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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“How do users read on the web?” he asked then. His succinct answer: “They don’t.”38” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
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“And I cannot read a page of anything I’ve written without making five changes—that’s my average.” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
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“None of that data, however, actually tells you why customers make the choices that they do.” — Clayton M. Christensen 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
