The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch.

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.

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

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

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