The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.

The price we pay to assume technology’s power is alienation.

The business of getting ahead – those one or two extra IQ points – really demands a leisurely, old-fashioned, inefficient thought process.

What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.

We become, neurologically, what we think.

We want to be interrupted, because each interruption brings us a valuable piece of information.

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

The ultimate search engine...would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.

If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with content, we will sacrifice something important not only in our selves but in our culture.

What can’t be replaced in a culture filled with feeds and streams are the slower, more immersive experiences.

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains