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Top 30 Michael Harris Quotes (2025 Update)

Michael Harris Quote: “Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.”

1. “Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “I propose going up the Delaware, In order to be nearer this place than I should be by taking The course of the Chesapeake which I once intended.”1 – William Howe, July 16, 1777.”

2. “I propose going up the Delaware, In order to be nearer this place than I should be by taking The course of the Chesapeake which I once intended.”1 – William Howe, July 16, 1777.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Montaigne once wrote, “We must reserve a back shop, all our own, entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.” But where will tomorrow’s children set up such a shop, when the world seems to conspire against the absentee soul?”

3. “Montaigne once wrote, “We must reserve a back shop, all our own, entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.” But where will tomorrow’s children set up such a shop, when the world seems to conspire against the absentee soul?”

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Michael Harris Quote: “What a lovely thing, to shut up and listen and not broadcast anything back. There’s a certain serenity in it and even a kind of light grace.”

4. “What a lovely thing, to shut up and listen and not broadcast anything back. There’s a certain serenity in it and even a kind of light grace.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.”

5. “If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Eventually, the information you’re dealing with absolutely feels more personalized; it confirms your beliefs, your biases, your experiences. And it does this to the detriment of your personal evolution. Personalization – the glorification of your own taste, your own opinion – can be deadly to real learning.”

6. “Eventually, the information you’re dealing with absolutely feels more personalized; it confirms your beliefs, your biases, your experiences. And it does this to the detriment of your personal evolution. Personalization – the glorification of your own taste, your own opinion – can be deadly to real learning.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “If solitude feels painful, it’s only because we don’t know how to be alone.”

7. “If solitude feels painful, it’s only because we don’t know how to be alone.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Our best thinkers may also crave solitude because, as Storr notes, “ideas are sensitive plants which wilt if exposed to premature scrutiny.”25.”

8. “Our best thinkers may also crave solitude because, as Storr notes, “ideas are sensitive plants which wilt if exposed to premature scrutiny.”25.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. – Coco Chanel.”

9. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. – Coco Chanel.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. First notice the difference. And then, every time, choose.”

10. “Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. First notice the difference. And then, every time, choose.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “When speaking: avoid jargon and slang, since “someone with style shuns identification with a group.”65.”

11. “When speaking: avoid jargon and slang, since “someone with style shuns identification with a group.”65.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Despite the universality of this change, which we’re all buffeted by, there is a single, seemingly small change that I’ll be most sorry about. It will sound meaningless, but: One doesn’t see teenagers staring into space anymore. Gone is the idle mind of the adolescent.”

12. “Despite the universality of this change, which we’re all buffeted by, there is a single, seemingly small change that I’ll be most sorry about. It will sound meaningless, but: One doesn’t see teenagers staring into space anymore. Gone is the idle mind of the adolescent.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “When we think we’re multitasking we’re actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing – quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we’re being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we’re simply giving ourselves extra work.”

13. “When we think we’re multitasking we’re actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing – quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we’re being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we’re simply giving ourselves extra work.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “The daydreamer is like the tree in which she crouches, oblivious to the red-faced plans of industry. It’s understood that if someone were to come along and put her mind “to use,” she would gain little from the interruption.”

14. “The daydreamer is like the tree in which she crouches, oblivious to the red-faced plans of industry. It’s understood that if someone were to come along and put her mind “to use,” she would gain little from the interruption.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “To write is to divorce the world and temporarily marry an idea of it instead.”

15. “To write is to divorce the world and temporarily marry an idea of it instead.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “It’s hard to remember what we loved about absence; we never ask for our deprivation back.”

16. “It’s hard to remember what we loved about absence; we never ask for our deprivation back.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Experiment. Live a little. And remember that the fear of absence is the surest sign that absence is direly needed.”

17. “Experiment. Live a little. And remember that the fear of absence is the surest sign that absence is direly needed.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “It is, however, necessary to combine the two things, solitude and the crowd, and to have recourse to them alternately: the former will make us long for people, the latter for ourselves, and the one will be a cure for the other: our distaste for the crowd will be cured by solitude, our boredom with solitude by the crowd.”

18. “It is, however, necessary to combine the two things, solitude and the crowd, and to have recourse to them alternately: the former will make us long for people, the latter for ourselves, and the one will be a cure for the other: our distaste for the crowd will be cured by solitude, our boredom with solitude by the crowd.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Switching our allegiance from one Big Brother to the next cannot purchase independent thought.”

19. “Switching our allegiance from one Big Brother to the next cannot purchase independent thought.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Like my entire generation, I seem to be drawn toward the Internet’s fluttering promise of connections, and then repulsed by it, in equal measure. And I feel that, in the end, the Internet will win. On.”

20. “Like my entire generation, I seem to be drawn toward the Internet’s fluttering promise of connections, and then repulsed by it, in equal measure. And I feel that, in the end, the Internet will win. On.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Our generation seems to be facing a crisis of critique. We want to know what’s best, we want to know where to eat and what movie to see, but we’ve begun to forget that real opinion, real critique, must always come out of an absence of voices – from a singular subjective viewpoint. You.”

21. “Our generation seems to be facing a crisis of critique. We want to know what’s best, we want to know where to eat and what movie to see, but we’ve begun to forget that real opinion, real critique, must always come out of an absence of voices – from a singular subjective viewpoint. You.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “As the twenty-first century lurches forward, though, we find that love letters – so awkward, so slow, so exhausting to compose – are an endangered species. We forget that romantic connections benefit from solitude nearly as much as the beloved’s company.”

22. “As the twenty-first century lurches forward, though, we find that love letters – so awkward, so slow, so exhausting to compose – are an endangered species. We forget that romantic connections benefit from solitude nearly as much as the beloved’s company.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Arguably, the larger and more productive world that our technologies deliver is simultaneously an impoverished version of the older one – a version that rejects direct experience and therefore rejects an earlier conception of reality that had its own value. We see more, yet our vision is blurred; we feel more things, yet we are numbed.”

23. “Arguably, the larger and more productive world that our technologies deliver is simultaneously an impoverished version of the older one – a version that rejects direct experience and therefore rejects an earlier conception of reality that had its own value. We see more, yet our vision is blurred; we feel more things, yet we are numbed.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Until recently, though, there were still moments in the day when the busyness abated and life’s pace decelerated. You would find yourself alone, separated from friends and colleagues, and you would be thrown back on your own resources, your own thoughts. Such interludes could provoke feelings of loneliness and boredom. Yet they also provided opportunities to tap into ideas, perceptions, and emotions inaccessible to the social self.”

24. “Until recently, though, there were still moments in the day when the busyness abated and life’s pace decelerated. You would find yourself alone, separated from friends and colleagues, and you would be thrown back on your own resources, your own thoughts. Such interludes could provoke feelings of loneliness and boredom. Yet they also provided opportunities to tap into ideas, perceptions, and emotions inaccessible to the social self.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Has social media made us socially obese – gorged on constant connection but never properly nourished?”

25. “Has social media made us socially obese – gorged on constant connection but never properly nourished?”

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Michael Harris Quote: “And what about the hundreds of bits of brain-flotsam that I immediately forgot or couldn’t put down in words? The process looks nothing like the Cartesian vision of the mind we’re sometimes fed – with the little man, my “self,” rational and purposeful, at the helm of the brain, guiding me toward a sublime conclusion. Instead, the brain of a daydreamer does not much care whether it arrives anywhere at all.”

26. “And what about the hundreds of bits of brain-flotsam that I immediately forgot or couldn’t put down in words? The process looks nothing like the Cartesian vision of the mind we’re sometimes fed – with the little man, my “self,” rational and purposeful, at the helm of the brain, guiding me toward a sublime conclusion. Instead, the brain of a daydreamer does not much care whether it arrives anywhere at all.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “To be happily alone is to affirm one’s faith in the love of others.”

27. “To be happily alone is to affirm one’s faith in the love of others.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Perhaps future generations will hack the system, move at will between storytelling technologies. As for me, I was retreating from the social option. I began taking myself to the water’s edge in order to read – away from the phone and the terrible Cyclops eye of my modem. On the seawall, bundled against wind and propped up with a sweater for a seat, I rediscovered a frame of mind that I was in danger of forgetting – real, trance-like reading that obliterated my anxieties, my fussing daily life.”

28. “Perhaps future generations will hack the system, move at will between storytelling technologies. As for me, I was retreating from the social option. I began taking myself to the water’s edge in order to read – away from the phone and the terrible Cyclops eye of my modem. On the seawall, bundled against wind and propped up with a sweater for a seat, I rediscovered a frame of mind that I was in danger of forgetting – real, trance-like reading that obliterated my anxieties, my fussing daily life.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “We face a planet-destroying empire – ideologically-driven, deceptive and dangerous. Our most likely path is toward the dark side: violent, exploitative, racist and authoritarian. Unless we change course, unless we rebel against the system that’s leading us there.”

29. “We face a planet-destroying empire – ideologically-driven, deceptive and dangerous. Our most likely path is toward the dark side: violent, exploitative, racist and authoritarian. Unless we change course, unless we rebel against the system that’s leading us there.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Meanwhile, I start to see time-devouring apps like Candy Crush as pacifiers for a culture unwilling or unable to experience a finer, adult form of leisure. We believed those who told us that the devil loves idle hands. And so we gave our hands over for safekeeping. We long for constant proof of our effectiveness, our accomplishments. And perhaps it’s this longing for proof, for glittering external validation, that makes our solitude so vulnerable to those who would harvest it.”

30. “Meanwhile, I start to see time-devouring apps like Candy Crush as pacifiers for a culture unwilling or unable to experience a finer, adult form of leisure. We believed those who told us that the devil loves idle hands. And so we gave our hands over for safekeeping. We long for constant proof of our effectiveness, our accomplishments. And perhaps it’s this longing for proof, for glittering external validation, that makes our solitude so vulnerable to those who would harvest it.”

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Michael Harris Quote: “Our online crowds are so insistent, so omnipresent, that we now must actively elbow out the forces that encroach on solitude’s borders, or else forfeit to them a large portion of our mental landscape.”

31. “Our online crowds are so insistent, so omnipresent, that we now must actively elbow out the forces that encroach on solitude’s borders, or else forfeit to them a large portion of our mental landscape.”

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