Quote by Marshall McLuhan
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal

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 our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. – Marshall McLuhan

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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrists couch. – Marshall McLuhan

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke

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The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them. – Norman Spinrad

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Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold its own if it doesnt, the thing collapses. – Arnold Newman

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Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. – Erich Fromm

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. – C. S. Lewis

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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. – Francis Beaumont

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it. – Proverb

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