Joshua Cohen Quotes

Joshua Cohen
American Writer
Born: 1980
Book Internet Me People Technology You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human. Joshua Cohen
Technology Sense Back Ourselves Give Does Us
I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google. Joshua Cohen
Google Think Russian Could German Survive American Literature American Literature
The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms. Joshua Cohen
Mind Made Nothing Relate Birth Algorithm Our Embedded Degrees Online Through Between New Ideas Terms Within Makes How Links Essentially Different Literature Mean Nothing New Engine Connections Search Search Engine
Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate. Joshua Cohen
Animal Words Language Relate Way Kingdom Entire Classify Could Computers Idea Ideas Without Mathematical Essentially Century Really Used Engine Derive Search Search Engine Now Right Things
The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself. Joshua Cohen
Work Myself Internet Before Else Say Out Writer Never Makes Said Caught Repeating Harder Things Here
I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that. Joshua Cohen
Day People Phone Other Late Emails Chat Write Answer Questions Just Middle Against Then Who Credit Card Credit Card Night
In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at. Joshua Cohen
Gesture Whatever Claim Could Argued Had Most Still Prove America Anyone Novelist
Books were in my family - books were my family. Joshua Cohen
Family Books Were
There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda. Joshua Cohen
Political Internet Big Controlling Books Brother Classic Horrible Big Brother Political Agenda Agenda Warning Many Thing Consciousness
All of business and all of politics is essentially fiction to those who live them. I have more experience with fiction than most senators because I do it all day, so their world didn't seem that foreign to me. Joshua Cohen
Politics Day Me Business Experience World Live Those All Day Seem More Most Because Foreign Than Senators Essentially Fiction Them Who
Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum. Joshua Cohen
Somewhere Would Most Narcissistic Fit CEO Who Novelists Spectrum
The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community. Joshua Cohen
Problem Community Back Always Ends Fiction Assimilation
The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing. Joshua Cohen
Writing Degree Reading Way Safe Keep Servitude
In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that's explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry. Joshua Cohen
Natural Hero Transformation Hyde Supernatural Through Robert Terms Stevenson Least His Louis Decide Process Explained Biochemistry
Say you're an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required? Joshua Cohen
Hope You Book People Speak World Money Say Possible House Make Read How Goal Sales American Represent As Much Money Formats Much Required Your Many Novelist Published Largest Publishing Publishing House Numbers
I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand. Joshua Cohen
Cooking Dinner Reading Out Tell Running Something More Like Calls Always Doing Been Discreet Friend Surveillance Than Movies Them Stand
I've never been able to shake the idea of family, which is to say I've never been able to shake my family. Being membered - being one limb of an immense grosser body - that's always been a fact to me. Joshua Cohen
Family Me Say Immense Able Shake Fact Never Idea Limb Always Been Being Which Body
Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance. Joshua Cohen
Books Advance Answers Anything Ask Novelists
'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener. Joshua Cohen
Life Religion Others Latin Say Some Link Literature While Note Meaning Should Connect Disputed
The Internet is a contest between people with the same name to be the person who dominates that online space. Joshua Cohen
People Space Internet Online Between Name Contest Person Same Who
A writer appears in everything that he does. That said, I felt like writing characters with my own name, in fact, provided me with something of a smoke screen. Joshua Cohen
Me Writing Own Everything Characters Something My Own Fact Writer He Name Like Smoke Felt Does Said Provided Screen In Fact Appears
I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology. Joshua Cohen
Life Time Me Technology People Feeling Become Live Rage Other Machine Enslaved Entirely General My Time Prevents Demands Like Forced Becoming Being Want Victimized Resentful
I think that technology is essentially a continuation of a divestment of theological power that's been happening since The Enlightenment. It's the idea that God can see and hear everything. Joshua Cohen
God Technology Power Think Everything See Idea Since Continuation Hear Been Essentially Happening Theological Enlightenment
E-books, which made their debut in the 1990s, cut costs even more for both consumer and producer, though as the Internet expanded, those roles became confused. Joshua Cohen
Confused Internet Made Those Though More Costs Both Consumer Became Debut Roles Which Cut Producer Even
The Jewish calendar, which is lunar, is a calendar of witness. The Sanhedrin, Jewry's Congress, met in Jerusalem toward the end of every month to wait for the new moon. Joshua Cohen
Witness Wait Moon Met Congress Every Month Toward New Calendar End Which Jerusalem Jewish
English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet. Joshua Cohen
Unlike Alphabet Concepts Read Left Clocks Irrespective Hebrew English Right Universal
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