Quotes by : Neil Postman

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible....

Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication....

Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most people....

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory....

Think of Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter or Billy Graham, or even Albert Einstein, and what will come to....

For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important....

The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human....

We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance....

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology,....