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.

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

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Affluence creates poverty.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

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

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

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.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.