A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
The future of work consists of learning a living.
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
To say that a body or its gravitational field ‘bends in space’ in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.
To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.
In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.
The ‘expert’ is the man who stays put.
All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.
A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.
On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody’s activities affect everybody else.
The ‘content’ of any medium is always another medium.
We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.