I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.

I was totally taken in and totally taken by that myth starting in 1999, rather carelessly writing about this archive and starting to read [Buckminster Fuller] self-representation, misrepresentation, whatever you want to call it.

We're back around to [Buckminster] Fuller again. Back around to the recognition of patterns, which may be true or may not be. But nevertheless, have enough of a semblance that they're worth exploring. That, to me, is where my work begins.

I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complicated is more likely to break down in one way or another. It's a pinhole camera that lets in very low light and instead of exposing film, which is going to spoil within a matter of days or weeks, I'm using ordinary black paper.

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another.