When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding s or controlling us. We're behind the wheel, but we can't be sure who's driving. Nicholas Carr
Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
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William Shakespeare
Ur be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the...
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Dorothy Parker
Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.
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Turcois Ominek
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
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Deepak Chopra
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
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Eda J. LeShan
More Quotes By Nicholas Carr
[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the “widespread and sophisticated development of visual-spatial skills.” We can, for example, rotate objects in our minds...
To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.
Some of the test subjects were given cards that had both words printed in full, like this: Hot: ColdOthers used cards that showed only the first letter of the second word, like this: Hot: CThe people who used the cards with the missing letters performed...
We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)
Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift -- to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of calm and attentive thought. In arguing that books are archaic...
