Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
Marshall McLuhan

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
Marshall McLuhan

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
Marshall McLuhan

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Marshall McLuhan

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Marshall McLuhan

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
Marshall McLuhan

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

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan

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

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Marshall McLuhan

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the message.
Marshall McLuhan

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

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Marshall McLuhan

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
Marshall McLuhan

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
Marshall McLuhan

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
Marshall McLuhan

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
Marshall McLuhan