“The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.”

“We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.”

“We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”

“Theirs is the customary human reaction when confronted with innovation: to flounder about attempting to adapt old responses to new situations or to simply condemn or ignore the harbingers of change--a practice refined by the Chinese emperors, who used to execute messengers bringing bad news. The new technological environments generate the most pain among those least prepared to alter their old value structures. The literati find the new electronic environment far more threatening than do those less committed to literacy as a way of life. When an individual or social group feels that its whole identity is jeopardized by social or psychic change, its natural reaction is to lash out in defensive fury. But for all their lamentations, the revolution has already taken place.”

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”