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We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.
At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.
We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.
When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.
Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.
Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.
I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.
Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.
The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.
Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.
The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.
Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.
Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.
I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.