"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us."

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Source : "New technology is fuelling the growth of gaming with social purpose" by David Hawksworth, Christian Johnsen, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2014.

Marshall McLuhan

#Tools Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.”
“Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.”
“The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.”
“Yeah, but a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it.”
“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”

Source : 1945 English Cricket.
“This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.”
“Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!”
“Smile at a stranger. See what happens.”

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