All Marshall McLuhan Quotes
- In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm… Big
- As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most… Age
- There is no more great men; there is only great committees. Committees
- Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. Darkness
- It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic. Alone
- If it works, it's obsolete. Hard Work
- I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell… Art
- We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us. Afterwards
- Money is just the poor man's credit card. Card
- Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the… Academy
- Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools. Age
- The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself into an art… Alert
- Art as radar acts as an early alarm system, as it were, enabling us to discover social and psychic targets in lots of time to… Acts
- 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 the… Accept
- Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. Advertising
- There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work… Allow
- Jobs represent a relatively recent pattern of work. From the fifteenth century to the twentieth century, there is a steady progress of fragmentation of the… Century
- The media have substituted themselves for the older world. Even if we should wish to recover that older world we can do it only by… Intensive
- New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake… Achievement
- Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in… Agreed
- Class in society is determined by voice Class
- Acoustic space has the basic character of a sphere whose focus or centre is simultaneously everywhere and whose margin is nowhere... Acoustic
- My arse! Arse
- TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion orclosing of the TV image, that the actor… Achieve