Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?

In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.

During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted. The men insisted on having the ads back again. Naturally. The ads are by far the best part of any magazine or newspaper. More pains and thought, more wit and art go into the making of an ad than into any prose feature of press or magazine. Ads are news. What is wrong with them is that they are always good news.

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.