Money is a poor man’s credit card.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.
The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.
Language is a form of organized stutter.
Only the vanquished remember history.
The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.
Technology is that which separates us from our environment.
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.
In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the “content” of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message.
Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.
There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.