Tom Chatfield quotes
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“From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.”
-- Tom ChatfieldSource : "Can Video Games Alter Society.. in a Good Way?" by Tom Chatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.
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“In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?”
-- Tom ChatfieldSource : Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.32, Pan Macmillan
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“We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living”
-- Tom ChatfieldSource : Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.3, Pan Macmillan
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“Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.”
-- Tom ChatfieldSource : "Do writers need paper?" by Tom Chatfield, www.prospectmagazine.co.uk. October 20, 2010.
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“I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible.”
-- Tom ChatfieldSource : "Can Video Games Alter Society.. in a Good Way?" by Tom Chatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.
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“If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.”
-- Tom ChatfieldSource : "Forget artificial intelligence. It's artificial idiocy we need to worry about" by Tom Chatfield, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2014.
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“Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.”
-- Tom Chatfield
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Source : "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 508), 1977.
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“I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.”
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“What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle”
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