A few of my favorite quotes

11.

Thirty spokes are made one by holes in a hub.

By vacancies joining them for a wheel's use:

The use of clay in molding pitchers

Comes from the hollow of its absence;

Doors, windows, in a house,

Are used for their emptiness:

Thus we are helped by what is not

To use what is.

The Way of Life according to Lao Tzu

Translated by Witter Bynner

All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical

The wheel

is an extension of the foot

The book

is an extension of the eye

Clothing

an extension of skin

electric circuitry

an extension of the central nervous system

Media, by altering the environment, evoke in us unique ratios of sense perceptions. The extension of any one sense alters the way we think and act - the way we perceive the world.

When

these

ratios

change,

men change.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

The Medium is the Massage

Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore

The west shall shake the east awake...

While ye have the night for morn...

Finnigan's Wake

James Joyce