Critique Quotes

“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.”

“We have done everything for them except acknowledge them as brothers.”

“The whole is the false.”

“Conventional programming languages are growing ever more enormous, but not stronger. Inherent defects at the most basic level cause them to be both fat and weak.”

“The media are mute, not because they are evil, but because of their structure.”

“Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution.”

“Missionary work is not a business, and cannot be run on business lines.”

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.”

“Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism.”

“Integration is a subterfuge for the maintenance of white supremacy.”

“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions...the practices that we accept rest.”

“Go forth, said Christ, to all the world; but the sectarians say, come hither to us, for here only is Christ.”

“The problem with Darwinism is not that it is wrong, but that it is incomplete. It doesn't explain the big picture.”

“Advertising is a multi-billion dollar sledgehammer driving a 49 cent thumbtack.”

“Progress has come to mean the replacement of what works with what is fashionable.”

“The establishment of a radical monopoly happens when one industrial product becomes the standard response to a basic human need.”

“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”

“Java is the most distressing thing to happen to computing since MS-DOS.”

“To be a mass medium, you have to be mediocre.”

“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”