A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.