All Marshall McLuhan Quotes
- World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. Civilian
- I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish. Discovered
- First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us Firsts
- Fish did not discover water. Discover
- For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a… Act
- The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes to work on… Accelerators
- An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of… Ad
- To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name. Camera
- The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system. Age
- Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener Affects
- All advertising advertises advertising. Advertises
- Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience. Central
- Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured… Bewildered
- It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time. Characteristics
- When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself. Fast
- I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time… Art
- America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. America
- When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth. Determine
- The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. Differences
- Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village… Babble
- The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects. Any
- On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect… Activities
- What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education. Education
- I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant. Arrogant
- Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. Created