Marshall McLuhan

“Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.”

“The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.”

“The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.”

“Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.”

“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”

“Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.”

“The medium is the message.”

“The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.”

“Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.”

“For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.”

“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.”

“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.”

“Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.”