Daniel J. Boorstin
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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
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The traveler was active he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.