Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CCwas a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. His work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries. He was educated at the University of Manitoba and Cambridge University and began his teaching career as a Professor of English at several universities in the U.S. and Canada, before moving to the University of Toronto where he would remain for the...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 July 1911
CityEdmonton, Canada
CountryCanada
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
Technology is that which separates us from our environment.
The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials
Money is just the poor man's credit card.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
ONLY THE SMALL SECRETS NEED TO BE PROTECTED.THE BIG ONES ARE KEPT SECRET BY PUBLIC INCREDULITY.
We have become irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.