In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

The future of work consists of learning a living.