--- title: "Best Technology Quotes by Marshall McLuhan" description: "45 Technology quotes by Marshall McLuhan. Plus more from Marshall McLuhan and more Technology sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de3/marshall-mcluhan-641_central-nervous-syst_the-computer-is-the-most-extraordinary-o_544064.png" --- > [The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/the-computer-is-the-most-extraordinary-of-man-s-technological/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de3/marshall-mcluhan-641_central-nervous-syst_the-computer-is-the-most-extraordinary-o_544064.png) > [The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/the-world-of-visual-perspective-is-one-of-unified-and-homogeneous/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f0/marshall-mcluhan-641_accepting_the-world-of-visual-perspective-is-one-o_250879.png) > [Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/typography-is-not-only-a-technology-but-is-in-itself-a-natural/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e52/marshall-mcluhan-641_cotton_typography-is-not-only-a-technology-but_509946.jpg) > [The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/the-new-media-and-technologies-by-which-we-amplify-and-extend/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c4/marshall-mcluhan-641_amplify_the-new-media-and-technologies-by-which_1822731.png) > [The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/the-medium-or-process-of-our-time-electric-technology-is-reshaping/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e21/marshall-mcluhan-641_action_the-medium-or-process-of-our-time-electr_1811802.jpg) ## Other authors on Technology - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bill-gates-17911.jpg) Bill Gates 187 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/technology/bill-gates/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steve-jobs-87290.jpg) Steve Jobs 140 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/technology/steve-jobs/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-walter-isaacson-94380.jpg) Walter Isaacson 125 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/technology/walter-isaacson/) - 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[ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-walt-mossberg-94304.jpg) Walt Mossberg 52 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/technology/walt-mossberg/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-jaron-lanier-47365.jpg) Jaron Lanier 49 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/technology/jaron-lanier/) ## More by Marshall McLuhan > [Even mud gives the illusion of depth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/even-mud-gives-the-illusion-of-depth/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/language-always-preserves-a-play-or-figure-ground-relation-between/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [Electronic man has no physical body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/electronic-man-has-no-physical-body/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/i-am-curious-to-know-what-would-happen-if-art-were-suddenly-seen-for/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/with-the-arrival-of-electric-technology-man-has-extended-or-set/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [“The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/the-constant-broadcast-and-reception-of-ghostly-images-via-radio-and/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/every-innovation-scraps-its-immediate-predecessor-and-retrieves-still/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/the-family-circle-has-widened-the-worldpool-of-information-fathered/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/like-primitive-we-now-live-in-a-global-village-of-our-own-making-a/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/professionalism-is-environmental-amateurism-is-anti-environmental/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/the-visual-power-of-the-phonetic-alphabet-is-the-translate-other/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/new-media-may-at-first-appear-as-mere-codes-of-transmission-for-older/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/youth-instinctively-understand-the-present-environment-the-electric/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/our-motor-car-is-our-supreme-form-of-privacy-when-we-are-away-from/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) > [The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/the-scientist-rigorously-defends-his-right-to-be-ignorant-of-almost/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/technology/marshall-mcluhan/#itemlist", "name": "Best Technology Quotes by Marshall McLuhan", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. 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