Popular Culture
The elevator paradox was mentioned by Charlie Eppes on the television show Numb3rs in the episode entitled "Chinese Box".
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.”
—Gerald Early (b. 1952)