Marshall McLuhan Quotes

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.

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

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

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

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

We drive into the future using only our rear view mirror

I wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t believed it.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.

.FIRST WE BUILD THE TOOLS, THEN THEY BUILD US.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

We become what we behold … we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered.