[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.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

The percept takes priority of the concept.

Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.