The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

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

... Their power to see environments as they really are.

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

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.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.