People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

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.

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)