"People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief."
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"Language is a form of organized stutter."
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"The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially."
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"Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists."
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"Even mud gives the illusion of depth."
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"The 'expert' is the man who stays put."
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"The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message"
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"Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration."
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"We impose the form of the old on the content of the new."
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"Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs."
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"The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer."
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"To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine."
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"Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion."
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"We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions."
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"The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form."
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"Clear prose indicates the absence of thought."
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"The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up."
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"The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects."
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"We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish."
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"Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed."
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