Michael

“Experiences like these led him to believe that the fundamental problem with marketing was its reliance on the past. It looked backward, not forward, and failed to take into account innovation, trends, or cultural shifts in taste.”
― Blake J. Harris, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

“How harmful overspecialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding.”
― Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation

“Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction.”
― Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

“A second major illusion on which the school system rests is that most learning is the result of teaching. Teaching, it is true, may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances. But most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.”
― Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society