At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

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

Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it.

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

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

The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions. Meaning is distorted when a word or sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before, and after. But there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. In fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way.

In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.