Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.
Youth instinctively understand the present environment – the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
The story begins only when the book closes.
It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it.
Even mud gives the illusion of depth.
North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.
When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.
There ain’t no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.
When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.
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.
The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.
I don’t want them to believe me, I just want them to think.
Anything that’s popular is a rear-view image.
We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.
Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.
If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.
Don’t ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.
Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.