The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.