Jack Paar mentioned that he once had said to a young friend, Why do you kids use ‘cool’ to mean ‘hot’? The friend replied, Because you folks used up the word ‘hot’ before we came along.
In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the...
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Art is anything you can get away with.
The only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a...
The Newtonian God—the God who made a clock-like universe, wound it, and withdrew—died a long time ago. This is what Nietzsche meant and this is the God who is being observed.
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. [p. 32]
No se puede vivir en un mundo interior del circuito eléctrico y mantener la letra escrita. La electricidad destruye la individualidad. (…) El individuo privado no se siente cómodo en condiciones eléct...
Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery—to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of forms.
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up.
One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.
Innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transitions. Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do...
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
That outering or uttering of sense which is language and speech is a tool which made it possible for man to accumulate experience and knowledge in a form that made easy transmission and maximum use po...
Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another. Money is metaphor in the sense that it stores skill and labour and also translates one s...
Arquímedes dijo una vez: <> Hoy en día, habría señalado nuestros medios de comunicación electrónicos y habría dicho: <>. Pero una vez que hemos entregado nuestros sentidos y nuestros sistemas nervioso...
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They will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;