Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly about courtship, the games mostly played by men, just as in tribal life.

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.

You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Information wants to be free.