“The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.” — Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
Tag: Marshall McLuhan
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“When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.” — Marshall McLuhan, “The Agenbite of Outwit” Location (Spring 1963)
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“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.” — Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
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“The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving towards the grand fallacy.” — Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
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“Resenting a new technology will not halt its progress.” — Marshall McLuhan, Playboy Magazine (March 1969)
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“We still cannot free ourselves of the delusion that it is how a medium is used that counts, rather than what it does to us and with us.” — Marshall McLuhan, Playboy Magazine, March 1969
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“A strange bond often exists among antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are.” — Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
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“There ain’t no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.” — Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
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“In the name of ‘progress’ our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the work of the old.” — Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
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“We don’t know who it was discovered water, but we’re pretty sure it wasn’t a fish.” — John Culkin, “Understanding Marshall McLuhan,” Ramparts, Volume 4, Number 12 (April 1966)