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Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i. E., the interval Picture Quote #1

Money is just the poor man’s credit card Picture Quote #1

We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us Picture Quote #1

New art is sensory violence on the frontiers of experience Picture Quote #1

Invention is the mother of all necessities Picture Quote #1

Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody Picture Quote #1

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The more data banks record about us, the less we exist Picture Quote #1

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him Picture Quote #1

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last - ditch stand of the artist Picture Quote #1

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf Picture Quote #1

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village Picture Quote #1

My method is vertical rather than horizontal so the scenery does not change but the texture does Picture Quote #1

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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening Picture Quote #1

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition Picture Quote #1

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries Picture Quote #1

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment Picture Quote #1

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters Picture Quote #1

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation Picture Quote #1

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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology Picture Quote #1

The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation Picture Quote #1

The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film Picture Quote #1

North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social Picture Quote #1

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy Picture Quote #1

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism Picture Quote #1

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The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb Picture Quote #1

The computer is the most extraordinary of man’s technological clothing; it’s an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop Picture Quote #1

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i. E., the interval (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) Money is just the poor man’s credit card (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) New art is sensory violence on the frontiers of experience (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) Invention is the mother of all necessities (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) The more data banks record about us, the less we exist (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him (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 modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) My method is vertical rather than horizontal so the scenery does not change but the texture does (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition (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) Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) The computer is the most extraordinary of man’s technological clothing; it’s an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software (Marshall McLuhan Quotes) 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)

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