The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.

Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry — is not even a ”subject " — but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.