Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtle...ss don't even arise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface le...vel and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry. ... poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the p...ast, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--o...r rather we have seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are tele- viewers, tele-hearers, tele-knowers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is n...ot the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information.... We are unable to take it all in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »