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- The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere…
- The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.
- If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might…
- Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.
- The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.
- What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.
- Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of…
- Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by…
- The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own…
- 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…
- Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
- The 'expert' is the man who stays put.
- Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways…
- Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion...
- 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…
- 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…
- The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a…
- An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch…
- For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
- Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
- Money is a poor man's credit card.
- The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
- The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
- Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
- 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…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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