All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.

The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.

Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

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 advertising advertises advertising.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.