The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. Marshall McLuhan More Quotes by Marshall McLuhan More Quotes From Marshall McLuhan Human perception is literally incarnation. Marshall McLuhan incarnationperceptionhumans Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened. Marshall McLuhan status-quomomentsmirrors All media work us over completely. Marshall McLuhan cultural-changemedia Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening. Marshall McLuhan contemplatinginevitablewilling The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form. Marshall McLuhan favourformmedia People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief. Marshall McLuhan writingsciencepeople The answers are always inside the problem, not outside. Marshall McLuhan problemanswersscience 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. Marshall McLuhan mindbookhands If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting. Marshall McLuhan paintingactionart It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter. Marshall McLuhan differencesresponsibilitypeople The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces. Marshall McLuhan camerasdoemean In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession. Marshall McLuhan innovationobsessionage The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature... Marshall McLuhan mediabridgesmen Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression. Marshall McLuhan mediauniqueexpression In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground. Marshall McLuhan utterancemediamind The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes. Marshall McLuhan rebelvictoryspace Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols. Marshall McLuhan tower-of-babelidolssleep By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds. Marshall McLuhan alphabetmediasound Life. Consider the alternative. Marshall McLuhan insanitylifedeath 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. Marshall McLuhan situationgenerationsbehinds
