Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Innovation

Quotes about: Innovation

• Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Innovation, Identity, Quests

• The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Artist, Media

• We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Change, Mirrors, Views

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

• If it works, it's obsolete.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Hard Work, Creativity, Ideas

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.139, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Thinking, Opposites, People

• In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Innovation, Age, Obsession

  "Innovation is obsolete". Evergreen review, Volume 15, Issues 86-94, Grove Press, (p. 64), 1971.

• Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Innovation, Novelty, Annihilation

• Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Museums, Innovation

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Barrington Nevitt, Harold Adams Innis (2005). “Marshall McLuhan: The argument: causality in the electric world”

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