QUOTE A DAY - Jan. 12, 2012

Greetings fellow quote lovers:

If you have never read a book or essays by Neil Postman, you are missing something profound. He had what I like to call an "informed heart". He could write brilliantly about the Torah, media or technology with equal facility.

Here are some great quotes from a speech he gave. It sums up his work in the technology area quite nicely.

Lastly, I am saddened by an email exchange I had with a subscriber that I wanted to share with you. I have taken out his name. QAD may not be for everyone...

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Former Subscriber: Why are you using quotes from the Quran? I'm having a little problem with that.

JA: I use quotes from the New Testament and Torah often. Also from Vedic texts. You have a problem only to the extent that you have been sold a bill of goods on Islam's evil. Maybe QAD is not for you.

Former Subscriber: You are absolutely right. QAD is not for me!

JA: I am sorry. Life is very short to be filled with our prejudices. We are all on a journey, may yours be gentle in learning that our differences give us strength.

Best,
JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
[E]very technology has a prejudice. Like language itself, it predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments.
--Neil Postman

Perhaps we can say that the computer person values information, not knowledge, certainly not wisdom. Indeed, in the computer age, the concept of wisdom may vanish altogether.
--Neil Postman

[E]nthusiasm for technology can turn into a form of idolatry and our belief in its beneficence can be a false absolute. The best way to view technology is as a strange intruder, to remember that technology is not part of God's plan but a product of human creativity and hubris, and that its capacity for good or evil rests entirely on human awareness of what it does for us and to us.
--Neil Postman


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
Our unspoken slogan has been "technology über alles," and we have been willing to shape our lives to fit the requirements of technology, not the requirements of culture. This is a form of stupidity, especially in an age of vast technological change.
-- Neil Postman

It is always necessary for us to ask of those who speak enthusiastically of computer technology, why do you do this? What interests do you represent? To whom are you hoping to give power? From whom will you be withholding power? I do not mean to attribute unsavory, let alone sinister motives to anyone. I say only that since technology favors some people and harms others, these are questions that must always be asked.
--Neil Postman


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

MYSTERY ANSWER: Frederick Douglass

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