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Famous Marshall McLuhan Quotes
“Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.”
“Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.”
“Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.”
“The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch.”
“North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.”
“There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.”
“A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.”
“Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.”
“In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.”
“Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.”
“Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.”
“The media have substituted themselves for the older world.”
“Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.”
“We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.”
“The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".”