The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

Marshall McLuhan

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.