What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more towar…

- Nicholas G. Carr

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

- Nicholas G. Carr

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, w…

- Nicholas G. Carr

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

- Nicholas G. Carr

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…

- Nicholas G. Carr

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

- Nicholas G. Carr

The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this immersive kind of very attentive…

- Nicholas G. Carr

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

- Nicholas G. Carr

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 th…

- Nicholas G. Carr