[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.

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.

When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

First we build the tools, then they build us.