Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.