Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

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• There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Decision

• India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

  

  Yoshiro Mori
  • Relationship
  • Technology

• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • America
  • Society
  • Free

• I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Magic

• There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Today
  • Technology
  • Fire

• Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Live
  • Science

• Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Results

• Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Powerful

• Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Stupid
  • Stress
  • Research

• If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Sometimes
  • Magic
  • Down

• I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Know
  • Moments
  • Magic

• Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.

  

  Pat Mitchell
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Character
  • Magic
  • First

• Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Powerful
  • Magic
  • Creative

• The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Poetry
  • Magic
  • Seems

• We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Need

• 'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.

  

  Joe Dante
  • Together
  • True
  • Movie

• I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore.

  

  Kate Gosselin
  • Persons
  • Stress
  • Learned

• I'm not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that's wrong. If you're going to kill an animal, you should use the entire animal and do it humanely. I'm definitely not a big fan.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Animal
  • Ocean

• State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Up
  • Education
  • Lost

• I just love kids. As a kid, I grew up in a poor country with a poor family that had nothing. I loved anyone who could come into my life, in from the outside, and give me advice that could help me succeed. I believe that there are a lot of people who came into my life that made me Dikembe Mutombo.

  

  Dikembe Mutombo
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Technology
  • Magic
  • Stress