To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

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

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.

Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.