One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.

Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.

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.

The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.