 Jokes are grievances. |
| Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. |
| Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. |
| I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. |
| One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. |
| Affluence creates poverty. |
| 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. |
| Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. |
| For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. |
| 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.' |
| Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor. |
| Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. |
| If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. |
| Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. |
| The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. |
| The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. |
| Money is just the poor man's credit card. |
| Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. |
| The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. |
| American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. |
