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.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.