“Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important that those who ask… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“television’s way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography’s way of knowing; that television’s conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“other forms of conversation will always remain. Speech, for example, and writing.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“A message denotes a specific, concrete statement about the world. But the forms of our media, including the symbols through which they… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“But it is not time constraints alone that produce such fragmented and discontinuous language. When a television show is in process, it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance and amplify impotence. But this… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“although culture is a creation of speech, it is recreated anew by every medium of communication—from painting to hieroglyphs to the alphabet… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Free human dialogue, wandering wherever the agility of the mind allows, lies at the heart of education. If teachers do not have… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
America was founded by intellectuals, a rare occurrence in the history of modern nations We might even say that America was founded… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
