The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate
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.
The ear favours no particular point of view.We are enveloped by sound.It forms a seamless web around us.We say, Music shall fill the air. We never say, Music shall fill a particular segment of the air...
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.
Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.
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...
The only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions
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.
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.
Humor as a system of communications and as a probe of our environment—of what's really going on—affords us our most appealing anti-environmental tool. It does not deal in theory, but in immediate expe...
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Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up.
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...
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.
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...
Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery—to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of forms.
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