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Quotations by author » Marshall McLuhan
Canadian communications theorist Educator, Writer and Social Reformer, 1911-1980
Quotes: 101 - 120 of 131 Pages: First Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next Last
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
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The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village
World
The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.
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The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.
RealityTelevision
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
Past
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
Travel
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
ArtPoets
The rhythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
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The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
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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.
Technology
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.
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The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.
Software
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
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The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch.
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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
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There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.
BooksWriting
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
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Today the business of business is becoming the constant invention of new business.
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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.
Tyranny
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