With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...

The media have substituted themselves for the older world.

As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.

Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.