Ross Lazerowitz

“But what I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. Our television set keeps us in constant communion with the world, but it does so with a face whose smiling countenance is unalterable. The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another issue altogether. To”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“When people start believing that progress is inevitable and life easy, they may quickly lose courage and determination in the face of the first signs of adversity.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“Until, years from now, when it will be noticed that the massive collection and speed-of-light retrieval of data have been of great value to large-scale organizations but have solved very little of importance to most people and have created at least as many problems for them as they may have solved.”
― Neil Postman

“Having workers meet the people they are helping is the greatest motivator, even if they only meet for a few minutes. It imbues one’s work with a significance that transcends careerism or money.”
― Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead