I don’t want them to believe me, I just want them to think.
Anything that’s popular is a rear-view image.
We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.
Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.
If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.
Don’t ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.
Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.
The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.
Nobody can commit photography alone.
Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.
The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.
We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.
The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.
Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don’t keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.
Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.
People don’t actually read newspapers – they get into them every morning like a hot bath.
Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.
Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.
Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.