Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.

Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.

My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Language is a form of organized stutter.

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.