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.

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were no space between the words. People just wrote in continuous script.

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

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

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.