The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.
Language is a form of organized stutter.
The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.
Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
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 ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.
Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.
Electronic man has no physical body.
The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
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.
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.
The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.
We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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