When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.

The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.

... Their power to see environments as they really are.

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...

The story begins only when the book closes.