The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

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

But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple.

Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.

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

Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown.

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