33 quotes
A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a metaphor?
Understanding Media (1964)
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
Understanding Media (1964)
The book is a private confessional form that provides a “point of view.”
Understanding Media (1964)
It is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behaviour.
Understanding Media (1964)
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving towards the grand fallacy. (p. 154)
Understanding Media (1964)
The "message" of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs. (p. 8)
Understanding Media (1964)
The message of radio is one of violent, unified implosion and resonance. (p. 263)
Understanding Media (1964)
The medium is the message.
Understanding Media (1964)
At no period of human culture have men understood the psychic mechanism involved in invention and technology. (p. 300)
Understanding Media (1964)
Art is anything you can get away with.
Understanding Media (1964)
It is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action. (p. 9)
Understanding Media (1964)
War is never anything less than accelerated technological change. (p. 102)
Understanding Media (1964)
Literate man, civilized man, tends to restrict and to separate functions, whereas tribal man has freely extended the form of his body to include the universe. (p. 117)
Understanding Media (1964)
The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.
Understanding Media (1964)
All media exists to invest our lives with artificial perception and arbitrary values. (p. 199)
Understanding Media (1964)
A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. (p. 245)
Understanding Media (1964)
It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new medium like radio or TV. (p. 53)
Understanding Media (1964)
Money is a corporate image depending on society for its institutional status. (p. 133)
Understanding Media (1964)
Today, computers hold out the promise of a means of instant translation of any code or language into any other code or language. (p. 80)
Understanding Media (1964)
The mosaic form of the TV image demands participation and involvement in depth, of the whole being, as does the sense of touch. (p. 334)
Understanding Media (1964)