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Electric Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with…
- The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life.…
- At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
- The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.
- 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…
- The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message
- Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is…
- One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you…
- With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree…
More Electric Quotes
- We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it… — Dave Barry
- A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. — Erma Bombeck
- Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric… — Louis D. Brandeis
- Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars… — Jeff Bridges
- If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of… — Lenny Bruce
- When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle.… — George Carlin
- I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar. — Nick Cave
- Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And… — Hugo Chavez
- I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead. — Clarence Clemons
- I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight… — George Clooney
- I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully… — Ian Anderson
- When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've… — Ian Anderson