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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The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. – 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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Age
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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. – Marshall McLuhan

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If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, thats a circle of win. – LeVar Burton

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I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasnt aware of it yet. – Bruce Sterling

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Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now. – Daniel Greenberg

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If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, well do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions. – Bjorn Lomborg

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The first reaction to truth is hatred. – Tertullian

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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. – Nicholas Negroponte

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Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. Were saying that for America to get back on track, were probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. Were going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. – Hillary Clinton

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