Innovation Quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

— Marshall McLuhan

Invention is the mother of necessities.

— Marshall McLuhan

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

— Marshall McLuhan

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

— Marshall McLuhan

Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.

— Marshall McLuhan

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

— Marshall McLuhan

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

— Marshall McLuhan

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of…

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

— Marshall McLuhan

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and…

— Marshall McLuhan

You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The…

— Marshall McLuhan

I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Theirs is the customary human reaction when confronted with innovation: to flounder about attempting to adapt old responses to new situations or…

— Marshall McLuhan