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Light Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.
- 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…
- Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
- The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
- 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…
More Light Quotes
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann