Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
All advertising advertises advertising.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.’
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.
Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
First we build the tools, then they build us.
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
If it works, it’s obsolete.
As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.