Quotes About Impact

would say that a lot of the science that ends up helping people is undertaken by men and women who are doing it for its own sake, and that going around weeping for those who suffer doesn't mean you're actually doing anything to help them.

If we are connected to everyone else by six degrees and we can influence them up to three degrees, then one way to think about ourselves is that each of us can reach about halfway to everyone else on the planet.

We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend stopped smoking, you stopped smoking. And we discovered that if your friend's friend's friend became happy, you became happy.

even if masks reduced the transmission rate of the virus by only 10 percent, our models indicate that hundreds of thousands of deaths would be prevented around the world, creating trillions of dollars in economic value. This is a big effect of a small thing.

Alla har upplevt känslomässig överföring... . Men en ofta förbisedd aspekt av all denna överföring av känslor är att de inte bara sprider sig till våra vänner utan också till våra vänners vänner och ännu längre - även om vi inte ens är närvarande.

Ensamhet sprider sig också mellan grannar, så att tio extra dagar med ensamhetskänslor leder till två extra dagar för personen på andra sidan staketet. Grannar och vänner som bor mer än en och en halv kilometer bort överför däremot inte ensamhetskänslor till varandra.

The effect was devastating.

The Royal Sovereign reeled under the impact, heeling 'two strakes out of the water

16 August 1804 was going to be a day they would remember for the rest of their lives.

To Midshipman Badcock, watching from two ships behind the Victory, the scene was one he would never forget.

the teeth marks he left in it on the day of Trafalgar are visible still.

at the expiration of eighteen minutes, the explosion seemed to raise her bodily about six feet;

A raking shot, which entered in the lower deck, had glanced along the beams and through the thickest of the people,

There is no economic law that says that everyone, or even most people, automatically benefit from technological progress.

our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot," he wrote. The content of the medium is just "the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind." P 4

In the long run a medium's content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act. As our window onto the world, and onto ourselves, a popular medium molds what we see and how we see it-and eventually, if we use it enough, it changes who we are, as individuals and as a society.

It's the new technologies that govern production and consumption, that guide people's behavior and shape their perceptions.

we program our computers and thereafter they program us. Even

The value of a well-made and well-used tool lies not only in what it produces for us but what it produces in us.

Google is neither God nor Satan, and if there are shadows in the Googleplex they're no more than the delusions of grandeur. What's disturbing about the company's founders is not their boyish desire to create an amazingly cool machine that will be able to outthink its creators, but the pinched conception of the human mind that gives rise to such a desire.

the computer is never a neutral tool. It influences, for better or worse, the way a person works and thinks.

When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding s or controlling us. We're behind the wheel, but we can't be sure who's driving.

The brighter the software, the dimmer the user.

the Web transformed the Internet from an intellectual meeting-house into a commercial enterprise.