Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

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?

A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.