“Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”– Ambrose Bierce Related Quotes “War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war’s made less grand than peace.”— Herman Melville “I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.”– Michael K. Powell “Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize ‘ideologies,’ desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.”— Régis Debray