One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is inherently cool and sensual because the eye acts as a surrogate hand in filling in the low-definition image thus engendered. Which is why boys make passes at girls who wear glasses.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.

Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.