Clive Thompson Quotes
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“Writing about things has other salutary cognitive effects. For one, it improves your memory: write about something and youll remember it better, in whats known as the generation effect.”
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“When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.”
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As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they're just, well, social people.
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Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production.
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Professional writers have long described the way that the act of writing forces them to distill their vague notions into clear ideas. By putting half-formed thoughts on the page, we externalize them and are able to evaluate them much more objectively. This is why writers often find that it's only when they start writing that they figure out what they want to say.
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“We're social creatures, so we think socially.”
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— Clive Thompson
“Our minds are drawn to what feels true, not what's necessarily so.”
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I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.
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— Clive Thompson
Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.
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No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.
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“The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.”
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— Clive Thompson
I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself.
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The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at us like ducks: 'Hey, there's a new reply to your comment! Come look at it!'
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We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.
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The people who tend to get the most out of being social thinkers are the people who themselves are helpful. They're always talking or answering people's questions or engaging in productive conversations. They're not being trolls. They're tamping down other people that are being trolls.
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— Clive Thompson
“America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro.”
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“The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result.”
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“Why are online games so addictive? It's mostly the narcotic appeal of 'leveling.'”
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Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.
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“Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.”
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