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• Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
• The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.
• Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than…
• The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
• Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
• The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel…
• The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of…
• Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
• Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the…
• The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.
• Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ...…
• I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

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