If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.


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NEIL PASRICHA
Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?
NEIL GAIMAN
Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragi...
NEIL GAIMAN
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or w...
NEIL GAIMAN
There's none so blind as those who will not listen.
NEIL GAIMAN
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell u...
NEIL GAIMAN
There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.
NEIL GAIMAN
For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of...
NEIL GAIMAN
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap...
NEIL GAIMAN
The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said...
NEIL GAIMAN
For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure ...
NEIL GAIMAN
It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't ...
NEIL GAIMAN
There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.
NEIL GAIMAN
On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Co...
NEIL GAIMAN
They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one...
NEIL GAIMAN
The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be...
NEIL GAIMAN
The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.
NEIL GAIMAN
You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.
'You have a very funny way of showing it,' ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don'...
NEIL GAIMAN
Oh- my twitchy witchy girl
I think you are so nice,
I give you bowls of porridge
And ...
NEIL GAIMAN
I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by weari...
NEIL GAIMAN
Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.
NEIL GAIMAN
Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to...
NEIL GAIMAN
We are small but we are many
We are many we are small
We were here before you rose
We...
NEIL GAIMAN
I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.
NEIL GAIMAN
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMAN
The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We ke...
NEIL GAIMAN
It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning,...
NEIL GAIMAN
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMAN
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
"I swear it," said the other mother. "I s...
NEIL GAIMAN
Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
NEIL GAIMAN
I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev...
NEIL GAIMAN
I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
NEIL GAIMAN
You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
NEIL GAIMAN