Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the intellect, by favoring certain definitions of intelligence and wisdom, and by demanding a certain kind of content - in a phrase, by creating new forms of truth-telling.

The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is a means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it.

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

When media make war against each other, it is a case of world-views in collision.

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.