Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

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.

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.