Today is Marshall McLuhan's birthday that Google is celebrating proudly in a doodle. Here are 24 quotes you will love to read. However, I have highlighted my top favorite. Hope these will be food for thoughts for your career and business.
- The medium is the message.
- We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.
- A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
- Art is anything you can get away with.
- The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
- There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
- Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
- All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
- The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
- The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
- The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.
- Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
- Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.
- When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
- New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.
- Mysticism is just tomorrow’s science dreamed today.
- The percept takes priority of the concept.
- The most human thing about us is our technology.
- At the very high speed of living, everybody needs a new career and a new job and a totally new personality every ten years.
- Invention is the mother of all necessities.
- Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
- Nobody ever made a grammatical error in a non-literate society.
- Headlines are icons, not literature.
- New media are new languages, their grammar and syntax yet unknown.
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