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Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
Literary Critic
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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.
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Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
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The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.
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I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
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