Technopoly Quotes

#1. In the American Technopoly, public opinion is a yes or no answer to an unexamined question.

Neil Postman

#2. What is clear is that, to date, computer technology has served to strengthen Technopoly's hold, to make people believe that technological innovation is synonymous with human progress.

Neil Postman

#3. Abetted by a form of education that in itself has been emptied of any coherent world-view, Technopoly deprives us of the social, political, historical, metaphysical, logical, or spiritual bases for knowing what is beyond belief.

Neil Postman

#4. Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.

Neil Postman

#5. Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way that Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World. It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible, and therefore irrelevant.

Neil Postman

#6. How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Douglas Wilson

#7. Worry is today's mouse eating tomorrow's cheese.

Larry Eisenberg

#8. I just want people to feel the emotion that's in the record. For me it's very raw and beautiful, I guess it's kind of like a diary for me. I'd love for people to be able to listen to it and it make them dance and cry and the same time.

Charli XCX

#9. I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.

Saskia De Brauw

#10. The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

Dave Chappelle

#11. It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#12. Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

Mary Oliver

#13. Well, that obviously wasn't good enough. Not by a long shot. Saying period at the end of something doesn't make it incontrovertible.

Hugh Laurie

#14. I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where I am when I look up at the sky. I know where I am when I look up at the Moon; it's not just some abstract romantic idea, it's something very real to me. See, I've expanded my home.

Gene Cernan