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.

The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

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

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.

For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.