The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into ou...
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
All media work us over completely.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
Only the vanquished remember history.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Our technology forces us to live mythically
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
At every turn, while he was investigating the background for his study of Thomas Nashe, he would encounter the Church — what Chesterton called (another book title) The Thing. It was everywhere. At one...
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.
In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.