First we build the tools, then they build us.

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?

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

Fish did not discover water.

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.