“ When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous events since the night before...We expect our two-week vacations to be romantic, exotic, cheap, and… Daniel J. Boorstin
“ A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis celebrities live o… Daniel J. Boorstin
“ Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin
“ The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. Daniel J. Boorstin
“ The greatest enemy of knowledge 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 with you. Daniel J. Boorstin
“ Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. Daniel J. Boorstin
“ 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.' Daniel J. Boorstin
“ The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin
“ The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to b… Daniel J. Boorstin
“ The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. Daniel J. Boorstin
“ An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service. Daniel J. Boorstin
“ A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well. Daniel J. Boorstin
“ The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. Daniel J. Boorstin
