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

The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

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

Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.