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Quotes from Take Today : The Executive as Dropout — Marshall McLuhan

1911–1980 Canada

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Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972)

The automated presidential surrogate is the superlative nobody. (p. 157)

Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972)

New technological environments are commonly cast in the molds of the preceding technology out of the sheer unawareness of their designers. (p. 47)

Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972)

Computers can do better than ever what needn’t be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. (p. 109)

Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972)

Every process pushed far enough tends to reverse or flip suddenly. Chiasmus – the reversal to process caused by increasing its speed, scope or size. (p. 6)

Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972)

Paradox is the technique for seizing the conflicting aspects of any problem. Paradox coalesces or telescopes various facets of a complex process in a single instant. (p. 106)

Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972)

Although meaningless in a tribal context, numbers and statistics assume mythic and magical qualities of infallibility in literate societies. (p. 114)

Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marshall McLuhan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.