Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)

Canadian Philosopher, futurist and founder of media studies.

Sourced

• "The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village."
  • Gutenberg Galaxy, 1962

• "The medium is the message."
  • Understanding Media, 1964

Attributed

• "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say."

• "Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."

• "Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."

• "Art is anything you can get away with."

• "Money is just the poor man's credit card."

• "There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."

• "Spaceship earth is still operated by railway conductors, just as NASA is managed by men with Newtonian goals."

• "The Leonardo da Vinci of our time." (on Buckminster Fuller).

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

• "We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."

• "People don’t actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath."

• "All advertising advertises advertising."

• "I may be wrong, but I’m never in doubt."

• "If it works, it's obsolete."