The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
DANIEL J BOORSTIN Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out k...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of t...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of Ameri...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-an...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fea...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowled...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he co...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both ...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journ...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives --...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of Information can drive our K...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provi...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world tod...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every d...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN In our world of big names, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for w...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesti...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town bo...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero cre...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered w...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no con...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, di...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready -- even eager -- to ...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio an...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The t...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a stud...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancest...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance-it is the illusion of knowledge.
DANIEL J BOORSTIN Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provi...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN When they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good on...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestor...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it h...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our ...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doi...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN An image . . . is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is ...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed wit...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, no...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Reading is like the sex act-done privately, and often in bed.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The t...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journ...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowled...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a goo...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for.
RUTH BOORSTIN I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.
DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.
DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cite...
DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN As Gabe continued to speak, he sounded to be a cheerful and intelligent person, two attributes I hav...
DANIEL J. RICE One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and i...
DANIEL J. GOOR He never cared too much for parties or people, but misanthropy could easily be cured by several alco...
DANIEL J. RICE There were a bunch of things we really liked right off the bat about a police precinct. We loved how...
DANIEL J. GOOR I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year a...
DANIEL J. EVANS But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which ...
DANIEL J. EVANS Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they ...
DANIEL J. EVANS They cannot land at the helicopter pad at the hospital. That is flooded. They are landing on a parki...
DANIEL J. WOLTERMAN Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind,” she said with a hint
of sadness.
“You los...
DANIEL J. RICE And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during yo...
DANIEL J. EVANS We get trapped in power struggles. When our kids feel backed into a corner, they instinctually fight...
DANIEL J. SIEGEL ...returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first...
DANIEL J. RICE The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach.
Eli felt...
DANIEL J. RICE The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kind...
DANIEL J. EVANS What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. Th...
DANIEL J. FLYNN Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the...
DANIEL J. LEVITIN I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we m...
DANIEL J. EVANS If we were making a cop comedy about bad cops or cops who were comically bad at the jobs, then the j...
DANIEL J. GOOR Hospitals in the South are helping where they can. It's about patients first. Our community is known...
DANIEL J. WOLTERMAN I was able to document 400 examples of that just based on our firm's files. The next question was: H...
DANIEL J. MULHOLLAND They would show up in our internal information system as asbestos victims.
DANIEL J. MULHOLLAND I was just blown away.
DANIEL J. MULHOLLAND Music communicates to us emotionally through systematic violations of expectations.
DANIEL J. LEVITIN Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact...
DANIEL J. SIEGEL If you have not touched the rocky wall of a canyon. If you have not heard a rushing river pound over...
DANIEL J. RICE Our dreams and stories may contain implicit aspects of our lives even without our awareness. In fact...
DANIEL J. SIEGEL [Texting] discourages thoughtful discussion or any level of detail. And the addictive problems are c...
DANIEL J. LEVITIN Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.
DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN I do engineering, not religion.
DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast...
DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work.
DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good int...
DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.
DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.
DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you...
DANIEL J. EVANS I didn't take very much part in activities on campus at that time.
DANIEL J. EVANS Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.
DANIEL J. EVANS I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.
DANIEL J. EVANS I was always good at math and science and physics.
DANIEL J. EVANS When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.
DANIEL J. EVANS I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
DANIEL J. EVANS Andy Samberg and Chelsea Peretti went to kindergarten together. For real.
DANIEL J. GOOR We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and...
DANIEL J. EVANS I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.
DANIEL J. EVANS I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
DANIEL J. EVANS My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS