It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.

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

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.

The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.