Language is a form of organized stutter.

On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.