Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the body's fragility and vulnerability.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

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 mere hula-hoop.

I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have.

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.

The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.

Always, in your career and personal life, be evolving with technology.

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our technology.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

Sex times technology equals the future.

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.