David Shenk Quotes

United States, Writer
1966

David Shenk is an American writer, lecturer, and filmmaker. He is author of six books, including "The Genius in All of Us" (2010), Data Smog (1997), The Forgetting (2001), and The Immortal Game (2006), and has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, Gourmet, Harper's, Wired,The New Yorker. The New Republic, The Nation, The American Scholar, ondent. He is a 1988 graduate of Brown University.

Also known as Lecturer, Film Maker

Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.

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- Process
- Proof
- Developed
The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.

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Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual

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Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.

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