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

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.

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.

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

For better or worse, honeybees are often much too busy to be bothered with personal reflection.

It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

you only live once.Unless you a zombie

Evolution is the reverberation of God's creative voice.

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.

Time is wealth, and unlike money when it is gone you cannot replace it.

If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.

I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war.