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TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts... NEIL POSTMAN Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial... NEIL POSTMAN But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins an... NEIL POSTMAN The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, includi... NEIL POSTMAN If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technol... NEIL POSTMAN We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sa... NEIL POSTMAN 'Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousne... NEIL POSTMAN Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less ... NEIL POSTMAN In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured o... NEIL POSTMAN The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed f... NEIL POSTMAN What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of telev... NEIL POSTMAN I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a ... NEIL POSTMAN There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothin... NEIL POSTMAN The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publ... NEIL POSTMAN technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add somethi... NEIL POSTMAN . . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of NEIL POSTMAN Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view. NEIL POSTMAN It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by ... NEIL POSTMAN The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of... NEIL POSTMAN Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they ... NEIL POSTMAN What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN Watch a man--say, a politician--being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstratio... NEIL POSTMAN In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a poll... NEIL POSTMAN Educators may bring upon themselves unnecessary travail by taking a tactless and unjustifiable posit... NEIL POSTMAN When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round... NEIL POSTMAN Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of communi... NEIL POSTMAN The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarc... NEIL POSTMAN I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology h... NEIL POSTMAN Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to clo... NEIL POSTMAN The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossib... NEIL POSTMAN At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a ... NEIL POSTMAN Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most peo... NEIL POSTMAN The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is a... NEIL POSTMAN Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problem... NEIL POSTMAN Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of... NEIL POSTMAN It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. Th... DAVID BRIN - THE POSTMAN NEIL KINNOCK I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour. VINCE NEIL I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire aft... VINCE NEIL With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless. VINCE NEIL I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with t... VINCE NEIL I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own i... VINCE NEIL Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just... VINCE NEIL Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a ... VINCE NEIL NEIL PEART For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the... NEIL MACGREGOR I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This... NEIL YOUNG NEIL GAIMAN When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. NEIL DIAMOND I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me... NEIL YOUNG I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two so... NEIL YOUNG Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you'... NEIL YOUNG I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else. NEIL YOUNG I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life. NEIL YOUNG I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master. NEIL YOUNG When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you&... NEIL YOUNG Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go ... NEIL YOUNG One new feature or fresh take can change everything. NEIL YOUNG To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a s... NEIL YOUNG The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the un... NEIL YOUNG The thing about my music is, there really is no point. NEIL YOUNG We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets... NEIL YOUNG I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. NEIL YOUNG When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in t... NEIL YOUNG Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done. NEIL YOUNG Rock and roll is here to stay. NEIL YOUNG Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. NEIL YOUNG As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points ... NEIL YOUNG It's better to burn out, than to fade away. 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