Quotes by Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan 8 quotes The medium is the message. | #4 | | Save it ? 0 ⤫ A technology is not an independent or alien object, it complements integrally our sensory and cognitive system; as a medium, it conditions not only communication modes but also the way we perceive and conceive our environment. When these ratios change men change. | #336 | source | | Save it ? 2 ⤫ There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. | #400 | | Save it ? 0 ⤫ All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. | #401 | | Save it ? 0 ⤫ We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. | #402 | | Save it ? 0 ⤫ 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.' | #403 | | Save it ? 1 ⤫ Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. | #404 | | Save it ? 0 ⤫ Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. | #405 | | Save it ? 0