Neil Postman Quotes

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

Neil Postman

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• One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

  

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• Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

  

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• Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

  

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• Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

  

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• Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

  

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• Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

  

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• As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.

  

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• Conflict is the pursuit of truth.

  

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• The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

  

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• I'm not a naturally social-media inclined person. I still prefer phone calls to texts/emails. I... hate texts.

  

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• I had written for the theater and didn't know that I knew how to write for film. Ultimately, I think it's just trusting your voice, trusting your characters, and then telling them in a different medium.

  

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• It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Mistake
  • Blessing
  • Burden