1960s, Understanding Media (1964)
Source: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
“The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message.”
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 8
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message." by Marshall McLuhan?
Marshall McLuhan 416
Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor … 1911–1980Related quotes
Hans Christian von Baeyer
(1938) American physicist
Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 4, Counting Bits, The scientific measure of information, p. 28
Marshall McLuhan
(1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Letter to Edward T. Hall, 1971, Letters of Marshall McLuhan, p. 397
1970s
Slavoj Žižek
(1949) Slovene philosopher
Source: Less Than Nothing (2012), Chapter One (The Drink Before), Vacillating The Semblances
Jagadish Chandra Bose
(1858–1937) Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist and archaeologist
Observation of Bose Institute.
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose in Vijayaprasara
James Clerk Maxwell
(1831–1879) Scottish physicist
Lecture at Kings College (1862) as quoted by F. V. Jones, "The Man Who Paved the Way for Wireless," New Scientist (Nov 1, 1979) p. 348 & Andrey Vyshedskiy, On The Origin Of The Human Mind 2nd edition
“Callas? She was pure electricity.”
Leonard Bernstein
(1918–1990) American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
As quoted in Callas: The Art and the Life (1974) by John Ardoin
Marshall McLuhan
(1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
1990s and beyond, "The Agenbite of Outwit" (1998)
“O'er the wires the electric message came,
"He is no better; he is much the same."”
Alfred Austin
(1835–1913) British writer and poet
On the Illness of the Prince of Wales (1910)
An 1871 poem on the illness of the Prince of Wales, although there is some doubt that Austin actually wrote this part. That classic compendium "The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse" (2d ed. 1930; Capricorn paperback 1962) includes a dozen quotations from Austin but attributes this particular couplet (p. 17) to a "university poet unknown." It also provides a metrically more accurate first line, "Across the wires the gloomy message came," plus "not" for "no" in the second line.
On the Illness of the Prince of Wales (1910)
“The principles of information science apply, whatever the medium of transfer.”
Brian Campbell Vickery
(1918–2009) British information theorist
Source: Fifty years of information progress (1994), p. 9.