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What's wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies
– Neil Postman

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  3. In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. – Oscar Wilde
  4. Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman’s terms). – JM Varner
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  6. Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view. – Neil Postman
  7. The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation. – Neil Postman
  8. It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. – Neil Postman
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  10. In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself. – Neil Postman
  11. Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration – Neil Postman
  12. No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. – Wallace Stegner
  13. The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all. – Spike Milligan
  14. hndoera kindyour life is a ticking of a clock when that clock stops ur life stops – Abeer rehan
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  16. The feeling of ‘turning into your dad’ is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you. – Andy Graham
  17. Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God’s maddening, disruptive, creativity. – M Craig Barnes
  18. Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. – Neil Gaiman
  19. I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong. – Amy Hatvany
  20. That’s something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery. – William Gibson
  21. Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression. – Criss Jami
  22. Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the -˜manly’ technologies. – Morinosuke Kawaguchi
  23. Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices. – Henry Jenkins
  24. There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural. – John Michael Greer
  25. The latest technologies are often sexy, but beware of solutions that vendors dress up like trollops, unless you’re looking for a one-night stand. – Stephen Few
  26. We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing. – Evgeny Morozov
  27. New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information. – Sara Sheridan
  28. The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless. – Bilal Hussain
  29. When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice. – Michael Joseph Brown
  30. Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  31. Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. – Idries Shah
  32. There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question. – Brunonia Barry
  33. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. – Mark Twain
  34. The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the wrong less wrong. – Ovadya ben Malka
  35. I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. – GK Chesterton
  36. Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong. – Colleen Hoover
  37. you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  38. It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! – Charles Nodier
  39. On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  40. On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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