Collected

Since our children are privy to a superabundance of media, we now need to proactively engineer moments of absence for them. We cannot afford to count on accidental absence any more than we can count on accidental veggies at dinner.

Michael Harris - The End of Absence (39)

For the beginner, novelty is anything that hasn’t been encountered before. For the expert, novelty is nuance.

Angela Duckworth - Grit (114)

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

Jack Donovan - The Way of Men (82)

Culture is more than the aggregate of what Google describes as ‘the world’s information.’ It’s more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

Nicholas Carr - The Shallows (197)