The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

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

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.