“As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.” ThinkingWorldChildrenPastWorryConceptsAdultsOur TimeEngagingSubmergedWorrying About The Past Author:Chris Ware
“Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.” ChildrenBookFactsMightSchoolInternetHigh SchoolConceptsSeriesCaughtSuperiorsTeenagerGossipEditorsChildren's BooksBloggersClassmates Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“But it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child. Indeed, if we were to start judging parents on the basis of their political beliefs, we would change the concept of family for the rest of time.” IfsWantChildrenPoliticalFatherBeliefParentJudgingConceptsBasesRaisesPolitical Beliefs Author:Janet Reno
“Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.” WorldMindChildrenPlayActionFearDarkCreativeFrontsConceptsAdultsEnormousFearfulYardsDark WorldAdult Children Author:Arthur J. Deikman
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.” ChildrenNationsTechnologyTaughtConceptsBillionsMathematicalHallucinationsOperatorsCyberspaceCyberpunk Author:William Gibson