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

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

#404

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

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

#402

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

#401

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

#400

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

The medium is the message.

Guy de Maupassant • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt • Friedrich Nietzsche • Henry David Thoreau • Confucius • Mike Monteiro • Voltaire • Zig Ziglar • Kurt D. Cobain • Elwyn Brooks White • Albert Einstein • anonymous • Martin Luther King Jr. • Theodor Seuss Geisel • Steven Wright • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • Rabindranath Tagore • John Maeda • Pablo Picasso • Oscar Wilde • Mahatma Gandhi • Toni Morrison • Deepak Chopra

Marshall McLuhan

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