Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
There is no more great men; there is only great committees.
In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.
Invention is the mother of necessities.
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.
Arists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely ‘well adjusted,’ he cannot go along with currents and trends.
At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.
I may be wrong, but I’m never in doubt.
Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.