Clive Thompson Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro.”

“Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.”

“Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.”

“The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.”

“The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.”

“The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result.”

“There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.”

“Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.”

“Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.”

“Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the Bard's lines came from onstage improvisations by actors.”