Neil Postman Quote on Computers and Nonsense
“Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.”
Neil Postman
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Money Is Like an Arm or Leg – Henry Ford
“Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.”
Henry Ford
Childhood as a Social Construct – Neil Postman Quote
“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 culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category.”
Neil Postman
Quote by Neil Postman: Efficiency with Direction
“We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?”
Neil Postman
“We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die” – Umberto Eco
“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die.”
Umberto Eco
Promises and Pie-Crusts – Jonathan Swift
“Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken”
Jonathan Swift
Quote by Jonathan Swift about Virtue and Prejudice
“Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.”
Jonathan Swift
Quote by Jonathan Swift: Dangerous Speakers
“There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.”
Jonathan Swift
The Power of Language by Jacob Grimm
“Language always proves to be economical; it employs the smallest, most inconspicuous means, yet with them it reaches toward great things.”
Jacob Grimm
Faith is Power to Believe and See – Prentice Mulford
“Faith is power to believe and power to see.”
Prentice Mulford