Eli Pariser Quotes

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.

If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.

The Google self and the Facebook self, in other words, are pretty different people. There's a big difference between "you are what you click" and "you are what you share.

Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more.