14 Quotes by Paul Greenberg

Now the line is: Forget the classics, concentrate on an education for the 21st century! Which apparently means knowing how to operate electronic devices and figure out a spreadsheet. That's not education, it's vocational training. What once were means seem to have become ends in education. And our more with-it "educators" shift with every passing wind, clutching at the latest gimmick the way drowning men do at straws.

Private thoughts, feelings, and moments are the currency of relationships. Give them their proper value by sharing them exclusively with the people who share your trust and love. (Goodbye Phone)

Nothing is something. In fact, out of nothingness flows all somethings. (Goodbye Phone)

Natural selection has a new aspect, one that is psychological denial. Such denial where the “individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, which he is apart, suffers”.

When reeling a fish in to not simply feel “the power of wildness intimately but the same time recognize the right of that wildness to continue”.

The smartphone is a gateway to endless work. Workers should have the right to close the gate. (Goodbye Phone)

Humans seem to have an innate drive to master other creatures.

These days I can't read The New York Times' strong opinions without shaking my head sadly. Then I turn to its editorials.

On-demand CRM may be a less-expensive risk, but it's just as big a risk. If you haven't planned everything out, customers will get lost. People will get fired. You will fail.