A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Language, as such, is a record of human perception.
Letter to Henry Overduin, Windsor Star, November 1, 1971 [LAC]

The real job of the computer is not retrieval but discovery. Like the human memory, the process of recall is an act of discovery.
The Hot and Cool Interview with Gerald Stearn, reprinted in Marshall McLuhan: Essays Media Research (1997), p 71
Quote #4374
Year: 1997
Chapters: McLuhanisms & Zingers | Memory
↪ Also at #4739
Compiled by William Kuhns
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