“Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.”
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Famous Marshall McLuhan Quotes
“People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.”
“Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.”
Source: Take today; the executive as dropout
“The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.”
“A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.”
Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects
“The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.”
Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects
“We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.”
Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects
“Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.”
Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication
“Nobody can commit photography alone.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.”
Source: Take today; the executive as dropout
“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.”
“Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.”