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Art is anything you can get away with.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
Money is a poor man's credit card.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
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.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.