By doing nothing men learn to do ill.

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

Success makes some crimes honorable.

When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

No tears are shed, when an enemy dies.

To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Never promise more than you can perform.

No one should be judge in his own cause.

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

By simply moving information and brushing information against information, any medium whatever creates vast wealth.

Man in the electronic age has no possible environment except the globe and no possible occupation except information-gathering.

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

We have become like the most primitive Palaeolithic man, once more global wanderers, but information gatherers rather than food gatherers. From now on the source of food, wealth and life itself will be information.

As Narcissus fell in love with an outering (projection, extension) of himself, man seems invariably to fall in love with the newest gadget or gimmick that is merely an extension of his own body.

When we put our central nervous system outside us we returned to the primal nomadic state.

The ways of thinking implanted by electronic culture are very different from those fostered by print culture. Since the Renaissance most methods and procedures have strongly tended towards stress on the visual organization of knowledge.

While people are engaged in creating a totally different world, they always form vivid images of the preceding world.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which humans communicate than by the content of the communication.

The role of the artist is to create an Anti-environment as a means of perception and adjustment.

Without an anti-environment, all environments are invisible.

Any new technology is an evolutionary and biological mutation opening doors of perception and new spheres of action to mankind.

The unique innovation of the phonetic alphabet released the Greeks from the universal acoustic spill of tribal societies.

There are no connections in resonant space. There are only interfaces and metamorphoses.

The electronic age is a world in which causes and effects become almost interchangeable, as in music structures.

When you move into a new area, a new territory and learn a new language, the language is not a new subject, it is an environment, it is total.

The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of conformity.

The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.

Logic is figure without a ground.

Our senses are not receptors so much as reactors and makers of different modalities of space. Perhaps touch is not just skin contact with things, but the very life of things in the mind.

There is no connection between the elements in an electric world, which is equivalent to being surrounded by the human unconscious.

Language is a sense, like touch.

Prose is private drama; poetry is corporate drama.

Dialectic functions by converting everything it touches into figure but metaphor is a means of perceiving one thing in terms of another.

Effects are perceived, whereas causes are conceived. Effects always preceed causes in the actual developmental order.

Great ages of innovation are the ages in which entire cultures are junked or scrapped.

I am a pattern watcher.

The images of mankind have become the most basic thing about them. And they're all software, and disembodied.

The magic of the cave image lies in its being, not in its being seen. The symbolic does not refer. It is.

The mask, like the side-show freak, is mainly participatory rather than pictorial in its sensory appeal.

The new science of communication is percept, not concept.

The nuclear bomb will turn warfare into the juggling of images.