“The world of the Greeks illustrates why visual appearances cannot interest people before the interiorization of alphabetic technology.”

“The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet.”

“People who are just getting "seriously interested" in film always ask a critic, "Why don’t you talk about technique and 'the visuals' more?" The answer is that American movie technique is generally more like technology and it usually isn’t very interesting.”

“The increase of visual stress among the Greeks alienated them from the primitive art that the electronic age now reinvents after interiorizing the “unified field” of electric all-at-onceness.”

“By phonemic transformation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.”

“The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.”

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

“When technology extends one of our senses, a new translation of culture occurs as swiftly as the new technology is interiorized.”

“Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?”

“The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.”