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Idea Quotes by Neil Postman
- Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and…
- Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.
- Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea…
- The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
- 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 Internet,…
- We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be…
- Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have…
- Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your…
- If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which…
- Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any…
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- I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a… — Joseph Barbera
- I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the… — Jeff Greenfield