It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in other ways between the cells that supported old ways of thinking or working or behaving, or whatever that you're not exercising so much.

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

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.

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.

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.