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From Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.
- The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and…
- Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on…
- Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.
- All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.
- 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…
- Technology is that which separates us from our environment.
- I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's…
- In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant…
- Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater…
- The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension…
- The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
- the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions
- 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…
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