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.

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

The media have substituted themselves for the older world.

Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.