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Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground. — Marshall McLuhan

Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes. — Marshall McLuhan

The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch. — Marshall McLuhan

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. — Marshall McLuhan

A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space. — Marshall McLuhan

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. — Marshall McLuhan

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. — Marshall McLuhan

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. — Marshall McLuhan

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. — Marshall McLuhan

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society. — Marshall McLuhan

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time. — Marshall McLuhan

The mother tongue is propaganda. — Marshall McLuhan

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will. — Marshall McLuhan

The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation. — Marshall McLuhan

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man. — Marshall McLuhan

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on. — Marshall McLuhan

Beware clarity. A man speaking to you in clear language is clearly using obsolete ideas. — Herbert Marshall Mcluhan

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. — Marshall McLuhan

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information. — Marshall McLuhan

Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very week identity. — Marshall McLuhan

Money is a poor man's credit card. — Marshall McLuhan

The 'expert' is the man who stays put. — Marshall McLuhan

The 'content' of any medium is always another medium. — Marshall McLuhan

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. — Marshall McLuhan

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. — Marshall McLuhan

if it works it's obsolete — Marshall McLuhan

I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer. — Marshall McLuhan

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. — Marshall McLuhan

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced. — Anthony Burgess

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

Propaganda begins when dialogue ends. (Quoted by Marshall McLuhan in McLuhan Hot & Cool) — Jacques Ellul

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. — Marshall McLuhan

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan

We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other. — Marshall McLuhan

Language is a form of organized stutter. — Marshall McLuhan

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools! — Marshall McLuhan

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new. — Marshall McLuhan

We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us. — Marshall McLuhan

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech. — Marshall McLuhan

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth. — Marshall McLuhan

Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody. — Marshall McLuhan

The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling. — Marshall McLuhan

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. — Marshall McLuhan

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. — Marshall McLuhan

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment. — Marshall McLuhan

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time. — Marshall McLuhan

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. — Marshall McLuhan

Attention as a communication medium just because it has no "content." And this makes it an invaluable instance of how people — Marshall McLuhan

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. — Marshall McLuhan

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. [p. 32] — Marshall McLuhan

The most human thing about us is our technology. — Marshall McLuhan

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. — Marshall McLuhan

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. — Marshall McLuhan

Anything that's popular is a rear-view image. — Marshall McLuhan

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today. — Marshall McLuhan

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience. — Marshall McLuhan

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning. — Marshall McLuhan

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan

The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message — Marshall McLuhan

There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation. — Marshall McLuhan

Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture. — Marshall McLuhan

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. — Marshall McLuhan

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth. — Marshall McLuhan

Technology is that which separates us from our environment. — Marshall McLuhan

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems. — Marshall McLuhan

Only the vanquished remember history. — Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the message. — Marshall McLuhan

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. — Marshall McLuhan

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame. — Marshall McLuhan

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. — Marshall McLuhan

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. — Marshall McLuhan

If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done. — Bob Saget

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones — Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. — Marshall McLuhan

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. — Marshall McLuhan

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. — Marshall McLuhan

As a rule, I always look for what others ignore. — Marshall McLuhan

Some days, I wish the whole fucking world would just 'phone in sick. — Marshall McLuhan

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. — Marshall McLuhan

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar — Marshall McLuhan

The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature. — Marshall McLuhan

Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch. — Marshall McLuhan

The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form. — Marshall McLuhan

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world. — Marshall McLuhan

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. — Marshall McLuhan

When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result. — Marshall McLuhan

Arists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another. — Marshall McLuhan

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic. — Marshall McLuhan

(When McLuhan announced that the medium was the message, he was being arch. The medium is both opposite to, and entwined with, the message.) — James Gleick

To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms. — Marshall McLuhan

I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish. — Marshall McLuhan

Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about. — Marshall McLuhan

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. — Marshall McLuhan

Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening — Marshall McLuhan

Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought. — Marshall McLuhan

I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think. — Marshall McLuhan

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening. — Marshall McLuhan

Money is just the poor man's credit card. — Marshall McLuhan

Nobody can commit photography alone. — Marshall McLuhan