Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

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