We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.

Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.