Marshall McLuhan

"My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say…"

"The alphabet, when pushed to a high degree of abstract visual intensity, became typography. The printed word with its specialist intensity burst the bonds of medieval corporate guilds and monasteries,…"

"Tactility is the space of the interval; acoustic space is spherical and resonant."

"The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation."

"Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registe…"

"Print, in turning the vernaculars into mass media, or closed systems, created the uniform, centralizing forces of modern nationalism."

"As Narcissus fell in love with an outering of himself, man seems invariably to fall in love with the newest gadget or gimmick that is merely an extension of his own body."

"Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally."