Marshall McLuhan Quotes - Page 4

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• Fish did not discover water.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Water, Fishes

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• Jokes are grievances.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Grievance, Jokes

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• Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Technology, Environment

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• Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Confusion, Feelings, Despair

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore (1967). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Gingko Pr Inc

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• Art is anything you can get away with.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Get Away, Artist

  "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1964.

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• Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

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  Birthday, Jobs, Yesterday

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• Affluence creates poverty.

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  Poverty, Affluence, Poor

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.93, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Writing, Science, People

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• The mother tongue is propaganda.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mother, Tongue, Propaganda

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.119, Routledge

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• For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Time, Men, Space

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 85), 1951.

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• Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.

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  Light, Identity, Attention

  "The Education of Mike McManus" (TV Ontario), December 28, 1977.

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• The future of work consists of learning a living.

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  Inspirational, Entrepreneur

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• The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

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  Technology, Patterns, Action

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

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  Self, Media, Invasion

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• First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

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  Tools, Shapes, Firsts

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• Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

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  Business, Science, Discovery

  Marshall McLuhan, Barrington Nevitt (1972). “Take today; the executive as dropout”, [Don Mills

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• The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Freedom, School, Differences

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.244, University of Toronto Press

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• Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

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  Gutenberg, Machines, Made

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 15 May 1977

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• One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

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  Water, Elements, Environment

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• The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.

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  Mediums

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• I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Doubt, May

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• There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

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  Peace, Ubuntu, Long

  "The Medium is the Massage : An Inventory of Effects". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1967.

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• All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

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  Wisdom, Art, Errors

  Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.28, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.

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  Art, Communication, Feelings

  "Essential McLuhan" edited by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone, (p. 73), 1995.

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• Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

  Marshall McLuhan

  War, Identity, Weapons

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.97, 1988.

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