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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

— Douglas Coupland

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

— Arnold Palmer

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

— Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the message.

— Marshall McLuhan

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

— Francis Bacon

The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

— Robert Trout

The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.

— Edmund Husserl

As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

— Irvine Welsh

✗Opposing Perspectives

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

— James Thurber