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“What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. 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, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

“The status quo feels comfortable and steady because much of the choice has been squeezed out. You have your routines, your ways of doing things.”
― Chip Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

“Every day millions of people decide to grant their smartphone a bit more control over their lives or try a new and more effective antidepressant drug. In pursuit of health, happiness and power, humans will gradually change first one of their features and then another, and another, until they will no longer be human.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect