All Marshall McLuhan Quotes
- Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter. Education
- Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. Everybody
- Any breakdown is a breakthrough. Any
- The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling. Catafalque
- Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home. Car
- Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning. Beginning
- All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors. Accumulation
- The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an… Book
- Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion... Acoustic
- You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type… Action
- ... Their power to see environments as they really are. Environment
- We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other. Each
- 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
- Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both. Acting
- Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture… Circuit
- The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus. Alphabet
- 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
- In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought. Inspirational
- In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for… Argued
- The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form. Concise
- People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief. Mischief
- Technology is that which separates us from our environment. Environment
- The answers are always inside the problem, not outside. Always Inside
- Only the vanquished remember history. History
- Language is a form of organized stutter. Definitions