Marshall Mcluhan

The real news is bad news.

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.