“Events, real events, will not even have time to take place. Everything will be preceded by its virtual realization.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com
“They’re going to poison discourse on the internet by filling it with coherent nonsense. They’ll make it so there’s enough weird information that outweighs the good information that it damages the ability of real people to have real conversations.”— Jack Clark, theverge.com
“We think we are creating the system, but the system is also creating us. We build the system, we live in its midst, and we are changed.”— Ellen Ullman, amazon.com
“We think we are creating the system for our own purposes. We believe we are making it in our own image. We call the microprocessor the “brain”; we say the machine has “memory.” But the computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very slim part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic,…”— Ellen Ullman, amazon.com
“The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless , hairless, expressionless . We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even f…”— Ray Bradbury, Professor Faber, amazon.com
“The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will…”— Jonathan Gottschall, amazon.com
“The question, 'Is it real?' is less important than, 'Is it newsworthy?”'”— Daniel Boorstin, amazon.com
“Take whiskey. Why do some people chose Jack Daniel's, while others choose Grand Dad or Taylor? Have they tried all three and compared the taste? Don't make me laugh. The reality is that these three brands have different images which appeal to different kinds of people. It isn't the whiskey they choo…”— David Ogilvy, amazon.com