Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.

You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish.

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.