Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.

The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions