"A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one."

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Neil Postman

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“Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.”
“We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.”
“My phone buzzes. Itâ€™s from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I wonâ€™t be needing. â€”a) Hi. Iâ€™m Zuzana. Iâ€™m actually a marionette brought to life by the Blue Fairy, and the only way I can gain a soul is if a human falls in love with me. Help a puppet out? â€”b) Hi. Iâ€™m Zuzana. The touch of my lips imparts immortality. Just sayinâ€™. â€”c) Hi. Iâ€™m Zuzana. I think I might like you.”
“The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.”
“Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.”
“It's our imagination that's responsible for love, not the other person.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 27, 2015
“Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.”
“Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.”

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