Only the vanquished remember history.

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.