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

The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.

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

In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.