"The shock of recognition! In an electric information environment, minority groups can no longer be contained— ignored. Too many people know too much about each other. Our new environment compels commitment and participation. We have become irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other. "

"Our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the work of the old… We approach the new with the physiological conditioning and the sensory responses of the old. This clash naturally occurs during transitional periods."

"Today's television child is attuned to up-to-the-minute "adult" news—inflation, rioting, war, taxes, crime, bathing beauties —and is bewildered when he enters the nineteenth-century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and schedules.""

"As new technologies come into play, people are less and less convinced of the importance of self expression. Teamwork succeeds private effort."

"In tribal societies we are told that it is a familiar reaction, when some hideous event occurs, for some people to say, "How horrible it must be to feel like that," instead of blaming somebody for having done something horrible."

"... and who are you? I —I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I woke up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."