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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
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We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
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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.
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We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
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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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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
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