In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

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?

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

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