As Machines Get To Be

There Is No Conceivable Human Action Which Custom Has Not At One Time Justified And At Another Condemned.

A Book ... Unlike A Television Program, Moving Picture Or Any Other 'modern Means Of Communication' ... Can Wait For Years, Yet Be Available At Any Moment When It Happens To Be Needed.

February... Now More Than Ever One Must Remind Oneself That It Is Wasteful Folly To Wish That Time Would Pass, Or - As The Puritanical Old Saying Used To Have It - To Kill Time Until It Kills You.

Technology Made Large Populations Possible; Large Populations Now Make Technology Indispensable.

In History As It Comes To Be Written, There Is Usually Some Spirit Of The Age Which Historians Can Define, But The Shape Of Things Is Seldom So Clear To Those Who Live Them. To Most Thoughtful Men It Has Generally Seemed That Theirs Was An Age Of Confusion.