A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.

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.

A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

What I had thought were signs of a broken educational system - the seemingly random placement of commas, the spastic syntax, the obnoxious overuse of quotation marks, the goofy misspelling of 'Jouralism' - were actually signs of the New Instantaneousness. 'Instant Jouralists' cannot be concerned with punctuation and grammar and spelling. That stuff just 'slows you down.' To be an 'Instant Jouralist,' you have to write as if you were being pursued by a cheetah across the Serengeti.

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

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