We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology.

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

There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.