The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.