It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes astonish computer kind
The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past. Is that good or bad? Will that make for better marriages or worse marriages? I don't know. Howard Rheingold badbadlygood Change image and share on social
Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows. Howard Rheingold digitaldividehaves Change image and share on social
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy. Howard Rheingold democracygovernindustrial Change image and share on social
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that. Alan Moore astonishcloutcost share on social
When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind. Lauryn Hill addictionargueback share on social
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. Lewis Thomas antbeastbegin share on social