Quotes

__**Quotes:**__

"When I am performing bricolage in real time over the course of hours, I am feeling my brain light up, I am feeling like I'm getting smarter."

"I think I know what's going on. For over a decade now, I've been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the internet."

"The net has become my all-purpose medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears, and flows into my mind."

"I can't read //War and Peace// anymore. I've lost the ability to do that. Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it."

"I found I could no longer write or revise anything on paper. I felt lost without the delete key, scrollbar, the cut and paste functions, the Undo command."

"Every technology is an expression of human will."

"It's no exaggeration to say that the writing and reading of books enhanced and refined people's experience of life and nature."

"Technologies are not mere exterior aids but also interior transformations of consciousness, and never more than when they affect the world."

"The Internet, like the personal computer before it, has proven to be so useful in so many ways that we've welcomed every expansion of its scope."

"Millions of people use it to distribute their own digital creations, in the form of blogs, videos, photos, songs, and podcasts, as well as to critique, edit, or otherwise modify creations of others."

"In addition to everything flowing through the network, we also have immediate access to all the other software programs running on our computers-they, too, compete for a piece of our mind."  "Our use of the Net will only grow, and its impact on us will only strengthen us, as it becomes more present in our lives."  "During the course of the day, most of us with access to the Web spend at least a couple of hours online-sometimes much more."