A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions