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.
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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.
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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
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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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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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Art at its most significant is 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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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
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Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
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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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