Quotes About Communication

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

There is a basic principle that distinguishes a hot medium like radio from a cool one like the telephone, or a hot medium like the movie from a cool one like TV…. Hot media are… low in participation, and cool media are high in participation or completion by the audience.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

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

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

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 to it.

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

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.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

The medium is the message.

Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.