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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Marshall McLuhan
Experience
Behavior
Understanding
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
Marshall McLuhan
Aggression
Consciousness
Manipulation
Public
Yield
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
Marshall McLuhan
Right
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
Marshall McLuhan
Age
Anxiety
Job
Result
Today
Tools
Trying
Yesterday
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
Marshall McLuhan
Darkness
Silence
Sound
Space
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
Marshall McLuhan
Information
Living
State
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
Marshall McLuhan
Beginning
End
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
Marshall McLuhan
Uselessness
Money is just the poor man's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan
Money
Credit
Man
Poor
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Marshall McLuhan
Privacy
Self
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Marshall McLuhan
Car
Failure
America
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
Marshall McLuhan
May
Jokes are grievances.
Marshall McLuhan
Jokes
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
Marshall McLuhan
Technology
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
Marshall McLuhan
Comfort
Rules
Today