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Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.



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.'"

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: "Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

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



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Publication is a self-invasion of privacy."

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.




Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."

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

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



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."

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: "We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future."

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession."

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus."

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be."

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions"

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions




Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point."

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on."

Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.



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."

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: "The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village."

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



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us."

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.



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

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



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness."

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure."

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values."

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself"."

The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say."

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it."

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally."

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there."

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness."

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.



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."

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: "A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication."

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity."

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality."

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "We go forward looking in the rearview mirror."

We go forward looking in the rearview mirror.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends."

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends."

The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times."

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with."

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "The future of work consists of learning a living."

The future of work consists of learning a living.



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

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



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities."

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education."

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time."

Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception."

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it."

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "All words, in every language, are metaphors."

All words, in every language, are metaphors.



Marshall McLuhan Quotes: "Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems."

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.