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Marshall McLuhan Quotes
You had me at hello
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I told you I'll be ready in FIVE minutes, stop calling me every half hour
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why
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If cats could talk, they wouldn't
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary
Having you in my life made everything better
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Money may not buy happiness, but it's better to cry in a Lamborghini
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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 most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody’s activities affect everybody else (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
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. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
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 of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
Today’s child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.) (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures ” it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces. (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb. (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
It’s misleading to suppose there’s any basic difference between education and entertainment . This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter. (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it’s just the beginning (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It’s called being mass man. (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system. (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability. (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries. (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.’ (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression. (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
People don’t actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
I’m not sure who discovered water, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a fish (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn’t necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else’s affairs. (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)
The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light. (Marshall McLuhan Quotes)