Clive Thompson A huge amount of our everyday thinking – powerful, creative, and resonant stuff – is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us. – Clive Thompson Arguing Quotes Creative Quotes Everyday Quotes Huge Quotes People Quotes Powerful Quotes Recall Quotes Relying Quotes Resonant Quotes Socially Quotes Stuff Quotes Talking Quotes Thinking Quotes We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds. I don’t think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic – and deeply seductive for the people who flock there – because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.
Anthony Browne As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book. – Anthony Browne
Georges BraquePoetry Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. – Georges Braque
N R Narayana Murthy Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public. – N R Narayana Murthy
John Otto I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing. – John Otto
Frances PerkinsWomen The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats. – Frances Perkins
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