Marshall McLuhan Quotes

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

Radio is the death and life of Africa.

The medium is the message.

Video gives people a voice.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

Television is an important part of how we communicate.

I think, culturally, stories are important, whether it be cinema, whether it be by word of mouth - which I don't even know if we do anymore, as it all seems to be social media.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines. So long as the root lives, typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn. Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency. It's other traditional goal is durability: not immunity to change, but a clear superiority to fashion. Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.

Typography exists to honor content.

The most important thing is presentation.

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

Letters are things, not pictures of things.

I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.