Buzz Aldrin Quotes

People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

It's amazing what the Internet can teach you to do.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

… science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race....

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I've been, like, the mom of Google.

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

I tend to read a lot of books and believe in a certain ideology.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do, so I make a machine that does it for me.

I like to read and understand.

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.