Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
Marshall McLuhanPositively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.
Marshall McLuhanWorld War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
Marshall McLuhanRadio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.
Marshall McLuhanIt is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
Marshall McLuhanYou see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?
Marshall McLuhan