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.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.