Daniel J. Boorstin

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.