"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.

The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

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