When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

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

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.