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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. Saul Bellow, Herzog, 82.[telt 18 wurden]
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Quote of the Day | 0203
The European: One would think that being able to look up every little piece of information would be liberating and give us the freedom to consider the big picture rather than the petty details. Carr: I think it is pretty clear ...[telt 96 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0204
The news outlets sell one thing above all else, and that is not so much the news as it is newness. What one buys when one buys a daily paper, what one purchases when one purchases a magazine, is the ...[telt 87 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0204
many philosophers, or what pass as philosophers, are, sadly, better described as petty social climbers, meretricious snobs, and acquisitive consumerists. Peter Fosl, 'Philosophers - Lovers of Wisdom?'[telt 26 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0204
The deeper we dig, the more it appears that the brain uses narrative in the same way it uses fundamental tools like vision and hearing: to construct our perception of the world. From this perspective, narrative no longer looks like an ...[telt 103 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0206
… You cannot have art without a public taste and you cannot have a public taste without a sense of style and quality throughout the social structure. Curiously enough this sense of style seems to have very little to do ...[telt 134 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0206
"What if the liberating potential of the Internet also contains the seeds of depoliticization and thus dedemocratization?" he asks. The Net delusion of his title is just that. Contrary to the "cyberutopians," as he calls them, who consider the ...[telt 72 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0207
The rise of technology is decreasing modes of face-to-face communication making it easier for Americans to compromise less and argue more, [Jared] Diamond argues.[telt 24 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0208
young writers will have to swear off navel-gazing in favor of an outward glance onto a wrecked and lovely world worthy and in need of the attention of intelligent, sensitive writers. I'm not calling for more pundits—God knows we've got ...[telt 97 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0208
What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever received? "So what?" Chris went to the store, he fell in love, she broke his heart—SO WHAT? What are the stakes here? What is happening in your fiction that will help enrich my capacity ...[telt 142 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0208
Economists know nothing; politicians only know what economists tell them; bankers think economists are fantasists and politicians are idiots; bankers know less than nothing. If you want to really and truly understand what’s happening around you, what’s making the weather, ...[telt 85 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0208
In our individualistic, western culture, where the romantic image of the great loner prevails, it will take some argumentative muscle to show that we should adopt a different model of the ‘strongest man’. We could start with the thought that ...[telt 105 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0209
The idea, for instance, that the printing press rapidly gave birth to a new order of information, democratic and bottom-up, is a cruel cartoon of the truth. If the printing press did propel the Reformation, one of the biggest ideas ...[telt 103 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0210
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. Wislawa Szymborska[telt 23 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0210
Since I first started reading, I know that I think in quotations and that I write with what others have written, and that I can have no other ambition than to reshuffle and rearrange. I find great satisfaction in that. ...[telt 53 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0211
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand. Wislawa Szymborska, 'The Joy of Writing'[telt 16 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0211
It’s a basic but still weird fact about books that two people’s experiences of the same book can be radically different but equally valid. On the face of it it doesn’t seem possible. When we read a book and find ...[telt 118 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0211
As adulthood settles on me—no passing fad, it turns out, but a chronic condition—I’m increasingly drawn back to the deeply engaged reading of my childhood. The books have changed, and my absorption is not always as total as it once ...[telt 123 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0212
speedskating competitions on television now all take place indoors, in controlled environments, on rinks of perfect ice, and in my homeland it has dwindled into a niche sport for nostalgic middle-aged and elderly men; people no longer gather around radios ...[telt 165 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0213
When we read, Dr. Hedge explained, a series of ocular muscles jump around and can cause strain, regardless of whether we are looking at pixels or paper. “While you’re reading, your eyes make about 10,000 movements an hour. It’s ...[telt 62 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0213
The sleazy aristocrats and the crooked politicians, the spies and the trimmers, seemed to taint the whole society. Jeffrey Archer's books were stacked and sold everywhere, and they always seemed to me a visible sign of corruption. The horrible man ...[telt 120 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0215
The lack of a cover immediately alters your purchasing habits. As soon as I got the ebook, I went on a virtual shopping spree, starting with the stuff I thought I should read – Wolf Hall, that kind of thing ...[telt 76 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0215
just as in the early 1980s, in the Soviet Union, not only was their politics trapped, but their culture was trapped. Russians called these last years of Brezhnev the years of stagnation. And I sort of wonder whether we ...[telt 147 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0216
Mere reviewing, however conscientiously and competently it is done, is plainly a much inferior business. Like writing poetry, it is chiefly a function of intellectual immaturity. The young literatus just out of the university, having as yet no capacity for ...[telt 130 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0216
I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and ...[telt 55 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0218
I had a No 1 single with a song about a robot prostitute and no one knew. Gary Numan, 'how we made Are 'Friends' Electric?' [youtube Uu6MDdxBork][telt 25 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0218
[T]oday’s system of news delivery is an enterprise whose procedures, protocols, and underlying assumptions all but guarantee that it cannot succeed at its self described mission. Broadcast journalism in particular is flawed in such a fundamental way that its utility ...[telt 56 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0219
I know what I think this is full of. Of arrogance, and pomposity, and what Philip Larkin liked to call the smell of bum. Here's a nice little exercise: find a book, or an article, or a website that has ...[telt 93 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0219
Long books are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. E.M. Forster, as quoted in: Why modern novelists need to watch their weight[telt 32 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0219
No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist except in my mind I have a feeling of sadness, looking around for them, as ...[telt 63 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0220
3. Only bad writers think that their work is really good. Anne Enright, 'Ten Rules for Writing Fiction' [ part 2][telt 19 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0220
The information flood has also brought enormous benefits to science. The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection ...[telt 72 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0221
If I were a publisher today I would consider a renewable rental model for all e-book downloads—the "lending library" technique of the Depression era—that more accurately reflects the conditional relationship, enforced by digital rights management software, between content provider and ...[telt 47 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0223
For Jobs, consistency was truly the hobgoblin of little minds (he saw little minds everywhere he looked) and he did his best to prove Emerson’s maxim in his own life. He hung a pirate flag on the top of his ...[telt 242 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0224
7. A book is an object fixed in time. A book can tell us about its status in history. If we look through first editions of Moby Dick or Leaves of Grass, we find that they give away information not ...[telt 134 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0225
What a formal description does is to show what a book is about in relation to the form in which the subject matter has been shaped or located. In order to write such a review, let’s say of a novel, ...[telt 120 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0225
"It's early in the twenty-first century, and that means that these words will mostly be read by nonpersons," it begins. The words will be "minced into anatomized search engine keywords," then "copied millions of times by some algorithm somewhere designed ...[telt 74 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0225
we're living in an era when the media constantly tries to manage those expectations with trailers, adverts and reviews. At the end of episodes of TV shows, they tell you what to expect next week. These packages of clips are ...[telt 79 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0225
a great deal of information has a social context: we want to recommend what’s good and we need to hear recommendations to figure out what to watch. One only need contemplate “Gangnam Style” or Fifty Shades of Grey to see ...[telt 66 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0226
the particular form of intelligence associated with book-learning (and all that this entails) is undoubtedly on the wane, with the “extended mind” of the smart phone increasingly replacing our own memories, and the hive-mindedness of the web usurping our notions ...[telt 127 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0226
[...] like it or not, human creativity has increasingly become a group process. Jonah Lehrer, 'Groupthink'[telt 15 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0227
in the end, we all work in the dark. We are blind. We can’t see what we’re doing. We exist in a cosmology of not-seeing. We have to take things on faith. And in the end, we just have to ...[telt 64 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0228
for columnists, opinions aren’t quite the same thing as they are for other people. Columnists not only have to hold more opinions than everyone else – up to one new one every week – but it’s also extremely important that ...[telt 71 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0229
In the twentieth century people stopped just reading novels and poems and started studying them.Tim Parks, 'The Writer’s Job'[telt 19 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0229
If people find it difficult to pay attention to serious texts, it is not because they have become slaves to their mobile phones. What’s really at issue is society’s failure to cultivate a love of reading and create an intellectually ...[telt 63 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0301
We are asked to believe, usually by critics, that the most important factor in our response to a book should be its objective quality -- a good book is a good book -- but we know that's not true. Mood ...[telt 119 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0301
If reading heightens your responses, shapes your idea of the world, gives you a sense of the purpose of life, then it is not surprising if, over time, reading should come to play a proportionately smaller role in the context ...[telt 82 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0301
Although some times I have felt that I held fire in my hands and spread a page with shining—I have never lost the weight of clumsiness, of ignorance, of aching inability. John Steinbeck, 'A book is like a man'[telt 38 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0303
Mrs. Lessing writes that she wanted to be reviewed on merit, ''as a new writer, without the benefit of a 'name.' '' The conclusion Mrs. Lessing has drawn from her experience as Jane Somers is that publishers and reviewers should ...[telt 96 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0304
I had become somewhat uneasy about throwing my reviews into what seemed like a great silence. Readers never responded to my reviews. I received only one letter from a Yorkshire Post reader, and that was a horticultural lady who responded ...[telt 78 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0304
For her, though, fiction remains the best means we have of understanding that madness, the ways in which we fail to connect. "If you took my reading and writing out of my head," Messud says, "I don't know who I ...[telt 67 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0304
as the poet and critic Donald Davie once put it, a writer who trades on the raw facts of a rough life often “confesses to discreditable sentiments or behavior, but in doing so he demands credit for having the courage ...[telt 91 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0306
The piece of writing I usually most enjoy doing is inevitably the thing I'm not supposed to be doing, so it can seem illicit. I like to work on something over a long period, returning to it repeatedly, adding, subtracting ...[telt 111 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0306
when you’re surrounded by the cheaply done, the half-assed and the ugly, when failure is unpunished and dedication unrewarded all around, it’s hard not to think that close enough is good enough. Chabuduo. James Palmer, Chabuduo! Close enough …[telt 40 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0307
one of the nicest things about reading is that you can do it without buying anything, and it lets you take a time out from being a productive cog in the economic machine. On the Demise of Publishing, Reading, and Everything ...[telt 41 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0307
18. Nearly all flowing, changing information on the Internet will move through streams. You will be able to gather and blend together all the streams that interest you. Streams of world news or news about your friends, streams that describe ...[telt 100 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0307
The obstacle to understanding (and accepting) science is deep, subtle, insidious, purely psychological, and probably hardwired into our genes. The problem doesn’t even look like a problem. It has to do with the way we—educated or uneducated, atheist or theist, ...[telt 92 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0308
We know this much: People want to be immersed. They want to get involved in a story, to carve out a role for themselves, to make it their own. But how is the author supposed to accommodate them? What if ...[telt 82 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0309
Dear Paul, You seem to treat sport as a mainly aesthetic affair, and the pleasures of sports spectatorship as mainly aesthetic pleasures. I am dubious about this approach, and for a number of reasons. Why is football big business, while ballet—whose ...[telt 75 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0309
Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds, on which it is commonly founded; and, by an infallible connexion, which prevails among all kinds of liberty, this privilege can ...[telt 66 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0309
Contrary to popular belief, the brain is not designed for thinking. It’s designed to save you from having to think, because the brain is actually not very good at thinking. Tinking is slow and unreliable. Nevertheless, people enjoy mental work ...[telt 88 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0312
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. 'Terry Pratchett in quotes: 15 of the best'[telt 20 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0312
we spend a lot of our time debating political events and the choices leaders make. But the most important changes are the shifts in culture, ideas and mentalities that people usually don’t even notice until after the fact. David Brooks, ...[telt 47 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0313
The simple truth of Wired is that Bob Woodward, deploying all of the talent and resources for which he is famous, produced something that is a failure as journalism. And when you imagine Woodward using the same approach to ...[telt 79 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0313
It has never been easier to wrap yourself up in a long-term intellectual project without at the same time losing touch with the world around you. Some critics don’t see this possibility, charging that the Web is destroying a ...[telt 103 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0314
In my experience, you always think you know what you’re doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn’t and you couldn’t. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human ...[telt 130 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0314
information on reader engagement could help a publisher acquire titles more effectively and market them better. So the sale of the data surrounding books could represent a new revenue stream, opening up the possibility that books could be sold at ...[telt 91 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0315
I also wonder if, in showing a willingness not to pursue even an excellent book to the death, a reader isn’t actually doing the writer a favor, exonerating him or her, from the near impossible task of getting out of ...[telt 77 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0315
We tend to think that the economy was killed by irresponsible risk-taking, a lack of regulation or a bubbling housing market, but the problem goes deeper. Those were just the little aeroplanes circling King Kong’s head (“Oh no, it wasn’t ...[telt 77 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0315
It strikes me that the affluence and convenience of modern society lull people into thinking that it all kind of happens magically, without any human intervention. People live in a world that functions, and not just because of technical experts, ...[telt 50 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0317
it's time that book reviewers everywhere delete the clichés and start giving readers the unvarnished truth.Michelle Kerns 'The top 20 most annoying book reviewer cliches and how to use them all in one meaningless review'[telt 35 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0317
to understand the nature of political forms is to think of them as different forms of sacralisation. In my view, I have this idea that the history of political forms — fascism, liberal democracy, Stalinism — is different ...[telt 96 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0317
most leaders — whether in politics or business — fail. That has always been the case: the majority of nations, companies, societies and organizations are poorly managed, as indicated by their longevity, revenues, and approval ratings, or by the effects ...[telt 69 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0318
There’s a tension between tools that encourage attentive thought and the reading of longer articles, and the cultural trend that everything becomes a constant stream of little bits of information through which we make sense of the world. So far, ...[telt 65 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0318
Technologies are like children. They’re often asked to do things that they’re incapable of doing, don’t really want to do, are ill suited to do. We need to find the right place for technology. DDT is actually a very good ...[telt 84 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0319
how many people do you know who want to carry 350 books at one time? I call this situation "phantom value," and it's something that happens a lot to tech companies. They've made a product without really thinking through the ...[telt 93 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0319
Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters. Stories, this research is showing, stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life. Annie ...[telt 45 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0319
The literature at the time in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, describing the contempt that the learned establishment had for the rise of the novel - and then of course later with the rise of the penny dreadfuls ...[telt 98 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0320
online research enables scholars to power-search for nuggets of information that might support their theses, saving them the time of wading through stacks of material that might prove marginal but that might have also prompted them to reconsider or refine ...[telt 47 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0320
My opinion of technology has not changed. My opinion of people may have changed, however. I am surprised most people would rather remain powerless and unaware of how the world works. I had thought this was the result of oppression. ...[telt 99 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0320
in the old days, it was a one-way street: you published, and there it was. And now? You can UN-publish too. Teleread: 'Publishing and unpublishing'[telt 24 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0321
Audiences like to be flattered; they like jokes; they like to be swept off their feet by a vigorous stream of words. As you decrease the intelligence of the audience, being a good speaker is increasingly a matter of being ...[telt 131 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0322
There are critics that you like reading but you don’t trust—like Helen Vendler. Or James Wood—I love reading him, but when he tells me a book is good, I don’t actually believe it. I believe he thinks so. But I ...[telt 127 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0323
reviewers will have to think harder about how to speak to readers and not kind of lapse into this connect-the-dots book reviewing that you used to see in some newspaper review sections. Laura Miller, on the Book Review: "Crisis or Renaissance?"[telt 40 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0324
Here, then, we find one of the central predicaments of modern man: we have at our disposal a huge range of facts about the ways things work, but by allowing those facts to replace too much of the received wisdom ...[telt 68 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0324
we form our workplaces around the extrovert ideal. I like her nightmare descriptions of open-plan offices where group brainstorming sessions descend on the startled introvert like flash-storms. Group-think favours the dominant extrovert. The loudest, most socially confident and quickest on ...[telt 84 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0325
these modern enthusiasms – “faith” in the market, hatred of Islam - are not in fact complex phenomena but rather shallow and politically driven ones, indeed to a great extent simply expressions of class and perceived national self-interest lightly dressed ...[telt 49 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0325
Education, Mark Twain once said, is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. in: Steven Leckart: 'The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever'[telt 26 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0326
when it comes to reading itself, I remain quietly relieved that it provides a fragile refuge where I can do something I don't have to "share". I don't have to mash up the themes to create something new or re-tweet ...[telt 83 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0326
one of the drawbacks to the Kindle is that we can actually forget the exact title of the book we are reading because it no longer passes before our eyes each time we pick it up. Stephen Hough, 'Is the Kindle ...[telt 50 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0326
engineers and scientists have been diminished in stature over the last half-century because they succeeded beyond almost anyone's expectations, including their own. Bill Schweber, 'For engineers, no good deed goes unpunished'[telt 30 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0328
The recognition that management theory is a sadly neglected subdiscipline of philosophy began with an experience of déjà vu. As I plowed through my shelfload of bad management books, I beheld a discipline that consists mainly of unverifiable propositions and ...[telt 67 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0328
I’m deeply concerned that we don’t have the foggiest clue how to approach the media landscape today. I’m confident that giving grounded people tools to think smarter can be effective. But I’m not convinced that we know how to educate ...[telt 109 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0329
Writers, poets, painters, musicians, philosophers, political thinkers, to name only a few of the categories affected, must woo their readers, viewers, listeners, from distraction. To this we must add, for simple realism demands it, that these same writers, painters, etc., ...[telt 110 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0329
We have a big menu of information technologies out there to choose from. Isn’t that the whole point?James Gleich, 'Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data'[telt 30 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0330
We care more about the parts and less about the entire. We are into snippets and smidgens and clips and tweets. We are not only a fragmented society, but a fragment society. And the result: What we gain is the knowledge ...[telt 71 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0330
For many years I believed that how a man dressed was unimportant; it was the man within that counted, not the man without. My belief excused me for being myself rather scruffily dressed, which was very easy and convenient for ...[telt 82 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0401
The formula is this: Say a few harmless (often downright irrelevant) words about the writer, his previous books or his recent successes, say some meaningless things about what a book in the given genre means (reiterating the point of view ...[telt 114 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0401
Due to the nature of its content, American Psycho is still sold shrink-wrapped in Australia and New Zealand, a practice Bret Easton Ellis has called “adorable” and “cute”. Last year, a bookstore in Adelaide was visited by local police after ...[telt 64 wurden]
Quote of the Day | 0401
New literacies will be required such as screen literacy. Reading, writing, arithmetic and retrieval will become key, as people who can find [information] fastest and make sense of it will be at a marked advantage over those who struggle to ...[telt 68 wurden]
