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.
The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.
Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.
Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They’ve been asleep for 500 years and they don’t like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.
Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.
Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.
A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones.
The medium, or process, of our time – electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.
The computer is the most extraordinary of man’s technological clothing; it’s an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.