When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-informed. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars.

We choose mania over boredom every time.