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

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.

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.

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.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.