Rūta

“[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 better than we used to be able to. But our “new strengths in visual-spatial intelligence” go hand in hand with a weakening of our capacities for the kind of “deep processing” that underpins “mindful knowledge acquisition, inductive analysis, critical thinking, imagination, and reflection.”
― Nicholas G. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

“Dar ir dabar pasijuntu besvarstąs: o gal aš jos nė nemylėjau? Gal mudu abu tik plykstelėjom kaip nuogi laidai, aklai susilietę tamsoje, sukibirkščiavom - ir viskas, vėl akla tamsa?.. Gal.”
― Jurgis Kunčinas

“Į lango stiklą kažkas negarsiai pabeldė; nors ir taip gulėjau bežadis, Tūla pakėlė pirštą ir uždėjo ant mano lūpų – mūsų niekam nėra...”
― Jurgis Kunčinas, Tūla

“To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades