It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

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

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.