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As technical people, we are apt to be preoccupied with scores, not competence...
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The key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming....(some beliefs are) fanatical not because they are "false", but because they are expressed in such a way that they can never be shown to be false.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Neil Postman
Born:
March 8, 1931
Died:
October 5, 2003
(aged 72)
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Neil Postman was a prominent American educator, media theorist and cultural critic, associated with New York University for more than forty years.
Known for:
Technopoly (1992)
The Disappearance of Childhood (1982)
The End of Education (1996)
Conscientious objections (1988)
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