My favorite Marshall McLuhan quotes Ripped, mixed and burned by Maarten Cannaerts Images from www.sxc.hu - Inspired by the book “Probes”

[we have become] global wanderers information gatherers rather than food gatherers

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which humans communicate than by the content of the communication

The tribalising power of the new media is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.

Today man has no physical body, he is translated into information

The metropolis today is a classroom, the ads its teacher . The traditional classroom is an obsolete detention home , a feudal dungeon

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe you need the society as it is

The medium is the message

I don't know who invented water, but I know it wasn't the fish

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy

We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future