We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it.

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another step down the road which we have already taken quite a few steps on. We're talking to each other on computers because we don't talk across the fence.

The audience is a big part of the show.

We are taught what reality is in all kinds of ways.

Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.