We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Influence, Technology, Transformation, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Dehumanization, Dependency, Reflection, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Information, Overload, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Protection, Secrets, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
Time’ has ceased, ‘space’ has vanished. We now live in a global village… a simultaneous happening Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Connectivity, Globalization, Timelessness, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
I’ve always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Caution, Experience, Prediction, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Insight, Perspective, Understanding, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Involvement, Leisure, Work, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
Don’t ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Inquiry, Perspective, Understanding, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Identity, Privacy, Surveillance, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Brutality, Confusion, Weakness, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Consumerism, Economy, Materialism, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Accessibility, Publishing, Technology, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Criticism, Dignity, Manipulation, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Information, Truth, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Education, Interruption, School, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Expertise, precision, Risk, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Change, Processes, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Discovery, Error, Progress, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Individualism, Modernity, Nostalgia, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
The age of automation is going to be the age of “do it yourself”. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Automation, Independence, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Discovery, Secrecy, Skepticism, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Conformity, Education, Transformation, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Ignorance, Knowledge, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Marshall McLuhan, Aggression, Protection, Urbanism, 0 Marshall McLuhan Professor · Canada Copy
Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts. Read explanation Mason Cooley Professor · USA
It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself. Jon Kabat-Zinn Professor · USA
