Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

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.

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.

A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

Here I am: My brain is open.

Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.