Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.

[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.

Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.

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 groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and specialise, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. The 'expert' is the man who stays put.