24 Quotes by Nicholas G. Carr

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

As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it’s not a flow; it’s a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.

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.

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

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.

There are a whole lot of reasons to be very happy that our brains are able to adapt and adapt so readily because we do strengthen and become more efficient at things we do a lot of in changed ways of thinking that we might need.

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.

I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.