Billions Quote by Umberto Eco

“If culture did not filter, it would be inane — as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we…

— Umberto Eco

“We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of…

— Antonio Gramsci

“The Internet is dumb. The Internet, with all its access to brain research, anthropology journals, social studies networks, and biographies and autobiographies, can't begin…

— Dee Williams

Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes…

— Noam Chomsky

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours…

— Joshua Foer

You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the…

— Joe Rogan

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to…

— Jarvis Cocker

I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take…

— Sufjan Stevens

It's strange to think that culture is simply a matter of millions of files flying around, but we now think in terms of networks…

— DJ Spooky

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We…

— Vivek Wadhwa

We thought the Internet would enlighten everyone, but it's given everyone access to more ignorance, and given ignorant people an opportunity to organize themselves…

— Weyes Blood