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“the mind is not sealed in the skull but extends throughout the body. We think not only with our brain but also with our eyes and ears, nose and mouth, limbs and torso. And when we use tools to extend our grasp, we think with them as well. “Thinking, or knowledge-getting, is far from being the armchair thing it is often supposed to be,” wrote the American philosopher and social reformer John Dewey in 1916. “Hands and feet, apparatus and appliances of all kinds are as much a part of it as changes in the brain.”51 To act is to think, and to think is to act.”
― The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
― The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
“The female heart is a labyrinth of subtleties, too challenging for the uncouth mind of the male racketeer.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“The value of a well-made and well-used tool lies not only in what it produces for us but what it produces in us.”
― The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
― The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
“What makes one tool superior to another has nothing to do with how new it is. What matters is how it enlarges or diminishes us, how, how it shapes our experience of nature and culture and one another. To cede choices about the texture of our daily lives to a grand abstraction called progress is folly.”
― The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
― The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
“As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, ha found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
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