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Neil Postman Quotes

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

Neil Postman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 8, 1931 - October 5, 2003

Topics

Technology I Am Negative Attention

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

John Osborne

Questions Easy You Answer Bothering

Oracle is not known for its high levels of customer satisfaction.

Aneel Bhusri

Customer Satisfaction High Oracle

Thinking things like, 'I will never get hired for this job,' or 'Nobody ever listens to me,' can alter your behavior in a way that makes those predictions come true.

Amy Morin

Job Me Thinking Behavior Nobody Way

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

Steve Lacy

People More Up Monk Catch Something

I am beekeeper, but I am also a writer, and some years ago, I sat down at a typewriter to experiment with words, to try to tease out of the amorphous, chaotic and wordless part of myself the reason why I was staying on this hilltop in the Ozarks after my first husband, with whom I had started a beekeeping business, and I had divorced.

Sue Hubbell

Business Myself Words I Am Husband

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

Derek Magyar

Actor Kid Been Since

Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.

Donald E. Graham

Internet Down Going Newspapers

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

Peter Drucker

Together Management Way Possible Out

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

Sean Penn

Courage Time Innocence Magic You

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

Serena Williams

Family Love Game Matters Tennis

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

Scott McCallum

Perspective Government People Look

I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did.

Nolan Ryan

Feel Fortunate Four I Feel Did Very