Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

I do not explain, I explore.

During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted. The men insisted on having the ads back again. Naturally. The ads are by far the best part of any magazine or newspaper. More pains and thought, more wit and art go into the making of an ad than into any prose feature of press or magazine. Ads are news. What is wrong with them is that they are always good news.

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.