"The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation."

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Sherry Turkle

#Thinking Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Winning is always fun, but the car is more important.”
“As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.”
“King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.”
“Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to understand him. Yet we know that the interplay of theory and research makes both for understanding of the specific case and expansion of the general rule.”
“You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.”
“I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.”

Source : "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.
“Let's turn to the West, Let's turn up the music, Let's hope it's always as good as this”
“I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch.”

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