When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.

Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.