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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)

Author YahooeyPosted on October 31, 2021October 30, 2021Categories QuotationsTags anxiety, Marshall McLuhan, new technologiesLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.” — Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy

Author YahooeyPosted on September 17, 2021September 15, 2021Categories QuotationsTags insight, Marshall McLuhan, point of view, understandingLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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“The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving towards the grand fallacy.” — Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media

Author YahooeyPosted on July 21, 2021July 18, 2021Categories QuotationsTags Marshall McLuhan, specialistsLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Resenting a new technology will not halt its progress.

“Resenting a new technology will not halt its progress.” — Marshall McLuhan, Playboy Magazine (March 1969)

Author YahooeyPosted on March 23, 2018July 18, 2021Categories QuotationsTags Marshall McLuhan, Playboy Interview, progress, resentment, technologyLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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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.

“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

Author YahooeyPosted on January 20, 2018January 16, 2018Categories QuotationsTags Marshall McLuhan, mediumLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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A strange bond often exists among antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are.

“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

Author YahooeyPosted on November 14, 2015December 28, 2019Categories QuotationsTags antisocial, Marshall McLuhan, Observation, The Medium is the Massage4 Comments on Quote of the Day

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There ain’t no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

“There ain’t no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.” — Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

Author YahooeyPosted on September 28, 2015January 18, 2020Categories QuotationsTags grammar, literacy, Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the MassageLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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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.

“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

Author YahooeyPosted on July 21, 2015June 21, 2015Categories QuotationsTags culture, Marshall McLuhan, media, progress, The Medium is the MassageLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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We don’t know who it was discovered water, but we’re pretty sure it wasn’t a fish.

“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)

Author YahooeyPosted on March 11, 2015February 6, 2015Categories QuotationsTags fish, John Culkin, Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Marshall McLuhan, water2 Comments on Quote of the Day

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I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.
“I’ve always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.” — Marshall McLuhan, Interview, Tom Wolfe, TVOntario, August 1970

Author YahooeyPosted on October 9, 2014August 28, 2014Categories QuotationsTags Interview, Marshall McLuhan, predictions, Tom Wolfe, TVOntario1 Comment on Quote of the Day

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