The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.