Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

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

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.