We Shape Our Tools, and Thereafter Our Tools Shape Us – Quote Investigator

We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us. —Winston Churchill

Life imitates art. We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us. — John M. Culkin, “A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan” (The Saturday Review, March 1967) (Culkin was a friend and colleague of Marshall McLuhan)

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A discussion of the origin of the quote about our tools shaping us.

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MOC: Read on 2021-06-08

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