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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

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. – Marshall McLuhan

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Experience
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Marshall McLuhan
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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. – Marshall McLuhan

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Shopping
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Technology
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There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal. – Anne Wilson Schaef

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Technology

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it. – An Wang

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Technology

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. – Vernor Vinge

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Technology

Ive been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. Ive been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science. – Ann Druyan

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Technology

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Confidence and superiority: Its the usual fundamentalist stuff: Ive got the truth, and you havent. – Jeanette Winterson

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Ive worked for 55 years. Im going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. Its just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. Farewell to Regis! Its getting embarrassing. – Regis Philbin

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Without a compelling cause, our employees are just putting in time. Their minds might be engaged, but their hearts are not. Meaning precedes motivation. – Lee J. Colan

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motivational

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. – Dean Acheson

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Change