Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.