As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are co-present in family relationships and other relationships, that responsibility is there. You can't just turn off a person. On the Internet, you can.

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

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.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea of sequenece and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.