Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

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

The medium is the message.

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.

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

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

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.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

Affluence creates poverty.

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.

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

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.