Quotes of Processing - somelinesforyou

“ The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ If you were designing the sort of information-processing system a brain is, it would be extremely impractical to store memories permanently in their original form. You need mechanisms for transforming and recording them; for "chunking" information into categories… ”

- Judith Hooper Teresi

“ I have been told of the many extra advantages of word-processing, and I acknowledge them. But, apart from other reasons, I find that a sentence, a page, a book, assumes a different nature when it is first in manuscript, second in typescript, and third in page proofs. ”

- Winston Graham

“ I was well acquainted with the gag that if you looked like your passport picture, you needed a trip. I was unprepared for the proponderance of thuglike pictures which I found in the course of processing passports. ”

- Frances G. Knight

“ We change constantly. Just as our cells die and are replenished every few months, new ideas present themselves continuously, opportunities bubble forth — and our magnificent brains, all the while, keep processing millions of bits of information every day… ”

- Walter Anderson
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