New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.

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

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.

A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.