Occupation: Philosopher Birth: July 21, 1911 Death: December 31, 1980
The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the….
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity..
Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening.
People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler pe….
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values..
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition..
The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality..
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point..
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a me….
Art is anything you can get away with..
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us..
I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think..
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it..
We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies..
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation..
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be s….
All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social….
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew..
The answers are always inside the problem, not outside..
There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends..
As a rule, I always look for what others ignore..