Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off one another.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.