One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

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

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.

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