Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.

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.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all end?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, "Why are we here?" and, to the question, "What moral instructions do you give us?", the science-god maintains silence.

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.