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New Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.
- Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening.…
- Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new…
- A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress…
- The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard…
- The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the…
- 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…
- We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.
- 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…
- The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror.…
- A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed…
- The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the…
- All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
- 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 spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a…
- The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
- It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
- In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm…
- 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…
- 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…
More New Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin