A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.

In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the ways we think.

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Of course not,” said Hermione. “Everything we need is here on this paper.

The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.

We have 23 million people unemployed. They're America's forgotten people. It's the damndest thing that this much collateral damage is acceptable to this [Barack Obama] administration.

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.