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

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

It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away.

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer.

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

America was founded by intellectuals, a rare occurrence in the history of modern nations We might even say that America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover.

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.