42 quotes
Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar (1911–1980)
“The medium is the message.”
"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."
on Technology
"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication."
on Media
"Money is just the poor man's credit card."
on Truth
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!"
on Anxiety
"First we build the tools, then they build us."
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us."
"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."
on Art
"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."
on Philosophy
"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."
"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
on Mental Health
"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."
on Communication
"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
on Travel
"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."
on Psychology
"The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village."
on Globalization
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
"All words, in every language, are metaphors."
on Writing
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
on Community
"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding."
on Critical Thinking
"The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light."
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist."
