A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.
All media work us over completely.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
Only the vanquished remember history.
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
At every turn, while he was investigating the background for his study of Thomas Nashe, he would encounter the Church — what Chesterton called (another book title) The Thing. It was everywhere. At one...
To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely well-adjusted, he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antiso...