Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

First we build the tools, then they build us.

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.