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| The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition (Norman, Don) | |
| - Your Highlight on page 101 | location 2210-2212 | Added on Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:05:40 | |
| It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. (Alfred North Whitehead, 1911.) | |
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| The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition (Norman, Don) | |
| - Your Highlight on page 111 | location 2395-2396 | Added on Saturday, 18 June 2016 19:33:53 | |
| unless it is triggered by some external event or unless we deliberately keep it in mind through constant repetition (which then prevents us from having other conscious thoughts). | |
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