"I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt."
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"All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors."
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"If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties."
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"Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter."
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"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition."
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"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology."
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"Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love."
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"Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression."
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"Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity."
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"Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today."
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"The price of eternal vigilance is indifference."
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"Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules."
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"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."
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"Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change."
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"Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes."
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"Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials."
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"Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity."
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"What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software."
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
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"All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions."
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