We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form.

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.

For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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

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.