The portentous discovery he (Pavlov) made was that any controlled environment, any man-made environment, is a conditioner that creates non-perceptive somnambulists. (71) - Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village
The dense information environment created by the computer is at present still concealed from it by a complex screen or mosaic quilt of antiquated activities that are now advertised as the new field for the computer. (89) - Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village
The computer is by all odds the most extraordinary of all the technological clothing ever devised by man, since it is the extension of our central nervous system. (35) - Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village
Many of the new ideas can be expressed in non-mathemathical language, but they are none the less difficult on that account. What is demanded is a change in our imaginative picture of the world. - Bertrand Russell
