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.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

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

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.'

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

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

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

I love you as a river loves the sea

You know, ” Naomi said, “if you’re looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you’re on wrong side.

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.

I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.