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.

Electronic man has no physical body.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

Our technology forces us to live mythically