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Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.
Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.
The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.
It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.
Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening
Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.
There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar
For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.
For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.
All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.