"It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away."

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Neil Postman

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“I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.”
“I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.”
“Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcome them and so the real business of walking was happening only now.”
“Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy; there is nothing intrinsically good or evil about the hammer itself. It is the purposes to which it is put and the skill with which it is used that determine whether the hammer's work is good or bad.”
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
“I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.”
“The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.”
“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.”

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