Haskell Wexler Quotes

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

My learning process has always been very idea-oriented. I never sat down with a book being like, 'OK, now I'm going to learn about transistors.' Instead I had an idea that I really liked and learned as I was trying to figure out how to build it.

My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity.

We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It ruins a romantic idea, which might just be an illusion, a sense of depth or continuity. I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

That's the way it was every time I studied it.

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must adapt to changing global threats, evolving technology and new strategies and structures.

All genuine learning is active, not passive.

If you ask what keeps me up at night, it's the pressure in the system forcing us to do all sorts of things. Content, data and technology are forcing us to think about business in a very different way.

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

These devils find a way to get at'cha. All it takes is some green and your face on the screen.

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.

Cameras get in the way of seeing.

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.