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.

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.

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.

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

I don't fear what hides in the darkness. I fear what hides in the light.

Where justice if negotiable, filthiness becomes delectable

It's like having explosives on board 24/7, the way I feel. I can't believe when I touch things they don't blow to bits. I can't believe I was so way off.I thought, I don't know, I thought wrong.

I think one of the reasons I'm standing here instead of other people is that, frankly, I talked about it, we have to have a strong military.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

The problem is, there was plenty of trash talk during my presidency. A lot.

I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror.