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

Other quotes by Marshall McLuhan

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at drivers license age than at voting age. – Marshall McLuhan

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Age
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The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. – Marshall McLuhan

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Business
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Technology
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So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction. – David Bohm

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Technology

To make a rocknroll record, technology is the least important thing. – Keith Richards

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Technology

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology. – Francesca Annis

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Technology

In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. Its the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind. – Maurice Saatchi

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Technology

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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. – Michel de Montaigne

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Bosnia is under my skin. Its the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years. – Paddy Ashdown

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You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy. – Neil Simon

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Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years. – Mike Pence

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