Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.
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.
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!
The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye…Clothing, an extension of the skin…Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.
I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.
The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.
You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity and this is one of our marvellous resources.
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation violence is the natural recourse.
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
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 much more powerful than he could ever be.
