Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

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