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Famous Marshall McLuhan Quotes
“All media work us over completely.”
“We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”
“The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.”
“Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.”
“Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.”
“Invention is the mother of necessities.”
“There is no more great men; there is only great committees.”
“Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.”
“It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.”
“The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.”
“Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.”
“Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones”
“The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...”
“Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.”
“At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.”
“All words, in every language, are metaphors.”
“Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.”