"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 value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards."

Source : Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.192, Vintage

Neil Postman

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“Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.”
“I don't do what you people want. I Do What I Want!”

Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.”

Source : "Helen Thomas: 'Baloney. I've Never Been Anti-Semitic. I'm a Semite'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. October 12, 2010.
“Women are expected to identify gender as a starting point. Ethnicities are expected to identify that as a location. Is it ever possible for the artist to imagine a state of absolute freedom? That was my call to arms.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
“Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.”
“The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.”

Source : Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin (2002). “The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin”, p.211, Penguin
“A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.”
“When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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