Quote

The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.

Marshall McLuhan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Marshall MacLuhan
Marshall Mac Luhan
Knowledge
Use
Stockpiles
Exponentially
Ignorance

More quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Image
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
First we build the tools, then they build us.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
Marshall McLuhan
Image
If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.
Marshall McLuhan