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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 320290a | It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new medium like radio or TV. (p. 53) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 904fe06 | The message of radio is one of violent, unified implosion and resonance. (p. 263) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| ec3341b | A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a metaphor? (p.7) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 9f8f65c | History as she is harped. Rite words in rote order. (pp. 108-109) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| dd5744d | We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 526916a | All media are extensions of some human faculty -- psychic or physical. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 3184358 | Headlines are icons, not literature. (p. 5) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 57cb757 | The new media are not bridges between man and nature: they are nature. (p. 14) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| c235cb9 | Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity. (p. 18) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 6f92d7d | The comic strip: upholder of Homeric culture. (p.19) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 511b397 | Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life. (p. 33) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 8f927d5 | To the blind all things are sudden. (p. 41) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 945de8f | People never remember but the computer never forgets. (p. 69) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 9220ad3 | Bless Madison Ave for restoring the magical art of the cavemen to suburbia. (p. 130) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 26fd102 | Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. (p. 132) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| b26d69c | Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| fc1e972 | I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| fb600bb | In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| aba63c3 | The percept takes priority of the concept. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 1c6a1d1 | My method is vertical rather than horizontal so the scenery does not change but the texture does. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| ad58b5e | Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 65e5077 | The bias of each medium of communication is far more distorting than the deliberate lie. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 731c129 | The media have substituted themselves for the older world. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 1b5418f | The most human thing about us is our technology. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| c74d3ae | The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| b078618 | Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 5ad2a23 | You don't like those ideas? I got others! | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 404bacd | The newspaper is a corporate symbolist poem, environmental and invisible, as poem. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 60f61da | The telegraph press mosaic is acoustic space as much as an electric circus. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| ad9d7ed | Acoustic space is totally discontinuous, like touch. It is a sphere without centers or margins. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 8a03322 | One touch of nature makes the whole world tin. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| dbb3626 | Privacy invasion is now one of biggest knowledge industries. (p. 24) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 91cab16 | I must be a mermaid... I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living. | Mermaids | ||
| 755febd | The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. (p. 168) | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| f8a416b | Tactility is space of the interval. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 2bbae84 | Omnipresence has become an ordinary human dimension. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 06d6ef1 | Invention is the mother of all necessities. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| ba046d3 | At the speed of light there is no sequence; everything happens at the same instant. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| a031eb2 | The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 90476a9 | Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 836062a | The hardware world tends to move into software form at the speed of light. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 764502d | Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| c2511ed | Formal logic and the logical syllogism encapsulate connectedness in reasoning. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 0047bba | Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant. | Marshall McLuhan |