Marshall McLuhan Quotes

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

I loved my computer; it's a tool. A tool increases your mechanical advantages. It allows you to use your strengths and talents to greater advantage, and that's what tools do, and that's what my computer does for me. It's not my toy, it's my tool.

If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!

Sully's' upbeat message is that we still need humans. It was the heroically human Sully who saved those people, not some cold equation written on a chalkboard.

As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.

I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.

There's a human element here you start to lose when you start rattling off the best mathematical equation to get the out.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Robots are good at things that are structured.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

I don’t give a damn where an idea comes from. If it’s good, use it.

Failure to recognize the obvious is not a good characteristic of a leader.

In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy.

You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.

It's always good to have a limit because it forces you to think about all the ways to get what you want.

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

There's an intelligence that goes with being a good cop. Intuitiveness - they have to be actors; they have to have deductive reasoning, knowledge about a great deal of subjects.

As a tech optimist, I believe productivity woes can be solved through cleverly imagined and implemented technology.