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In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin. (p. 47)
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It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new medium like radio or TV. (p. 53)
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The message of radio is one of violent, unified implosion and resonance. (p. 263)
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A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a metaphor? (p.7)
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History as she is harped. Rite words in rote order. (pp. 108-109)
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We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
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All media are extensions of some human faculty -- psychic or physical.
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Headlines are icons, not literature. (p. 5)
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The new media are not bridges between man and nature: they are nature. (p. 14)
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Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity. (p. 18)
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The comic strip: upholder of Homeric culture. (p.19)
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Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life. (p. 33)
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To the blind all things are sudden. (p. 41)
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People never remember but the computer never forgets. (p. 69)
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Bless Madison Ave for restoring the magical art of the cavemen to suburbia. (p. 130)
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Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. (p. 132)
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Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.
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I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.
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In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
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The percept takes priority of the concept.
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My method is vertical rather than horizontal so the scenery does not change but the texture does.
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Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.
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The bias of each medium of communication is far more distorting than the deliberate lie.
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The media have substituted themselves for the older world.
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The most human thing about us is our technology.
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The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.
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Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
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You don't like those ideas? I got others!
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The newspaper is a corporate symbolist poem, environmental and invisible, as poem.
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The telegraph press mosaic is acoustic space as much as an electric circus.
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Acoustic space is totally discontinuous, like touch. It is a sphere without centers or margins.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world tin.
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Privacy invasion is now one of biggest knowledge industries. (p. 24)
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The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. (p. 168)
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Tactility is space of the interval.
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Omnipresence has become an ordinary human dimension.
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Invention is the mother of all necessities.
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At the speed of light there is no sequence; everything happens at the same instant.
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The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
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Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.
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The hardware world tends to move into software form at the speed of light.
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Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.
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Formal logic and the logical syllogism encapsulate connectedness in reasoning.
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Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant.
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