Evgeny Morozov Quotes

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

Do I think technology is bad? No. I think it's wonderful that the world is so connected now. But I think, as a result, childhood ends a little earlier.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

Living in the age of information and technology, everything gets out so easy and so, so quickly.

With my intellect, I'm somebody who can think fast, think on my feet and can think under pressure.

The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.

Humans will always babble. If someone wants to tweet that they can't decide whether to wear blue socks or brown socks, then fair enough. But when sharing becomes automated, I get the heebie-jeebies.

Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these are people that have truly learned and mastered the choices that they have and how to deal with those choices over a very, very long period of training, so essentially what they're really doing is ruling out all the irrelevant choices and only zeroing in on the most relevant, useful choices at the moment.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.