# Quote — Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media

> Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement. (p. 113)

- Author: [Marshall McLuhan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marshall-mcluhan.md)
- Book: [Understanding Media](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marshall-mcluhan/understanding-media.md)
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## More from this book

> Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth. One of the merits of motivation research has been the revelation of man's sex relation to the motorcar. (p.46)

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> All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information. (p. 178-179)

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> In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin. (p. 47)

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