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

We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, by bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.

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

The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to the environment of the internet, which is an environment of kind of constant immersion and information and constant distractions, interruptions, juggling lots of messages, lots of bits of information.

When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read.

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

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