“ The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. Marshall McLuhan
“ If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. Marshall McLuhan
“ It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. Tranquilizers and anesthetics, private and corporate, become the la… Marshall McLuhan
“ The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye…Clothing, an extension of the skin…Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system. Marshall McLuhan
“ Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rather than on 'substance'. The dramatic and rapid changes of 'substance' elude these accusers. Surviva… Marshall McLuhan
“ American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. Marshall McLuhan
“ The formula for this brand of historical writing is to put the public on the inside; to let them feel the palpitations of royal and imperial lovers and to overhear their lispings and cooings. It can b… Marshall McLuhan
“ 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. Marshall McLuhan
“ The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. Marshall McLuhan
“ In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. Marshall McLuhan