"Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody."
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"Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another."
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"Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events."
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"Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?"
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"Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home."
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"Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth."
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"Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands."
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"The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage."
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"In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought."
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"The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value."
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"The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers."
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"There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word."
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"The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare."
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"Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist."
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"A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence."
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"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."
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"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
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"Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened."
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"All advertising advertises advertising."
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"The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas."
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