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"Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr"
"The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries."
"The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village."
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us."
"Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly."
"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."
"Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness."
"Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure."
"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values."
"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say."
"The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself"."
"I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it."
"Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally."
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there."
"It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness."
"The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."
"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."
"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."
"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication."