The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.

My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules.

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.