I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules.

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us