McLuhan Quotes

This McLuhan Assignment lists a bunch of great McLuhan lines.

You have to hand it to McLuhan-- even when many of his quotes might tempt critics to reframe as over-intellectualized pap, more often he is shockingly accurate. One of my favourites: "the future of the book is the blurb." Replace "blurb" with "blog" and suddenly McLuhan is at least 30 years ahead of his time.

Reading his quotes require the reader to search for the meaning, because it's meaning is only implied. McLuhan's writing is "cool" by his definition; compressed and simplified to allow room for the reader's "noodle". Most quotes are therefore "true" in multiple contexts-- McLuhan is rarely wrong, just right in more ways that could be mentioned at once.