"Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers."

“Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.”

Source : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.10, Penguin

“My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.”

“Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.”

Source : "How Felicia Day Recruited Millions for Her Guild". Interview with Gus Mastrapa, www.wired.com. September 29, 2009.

“As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?”

“Experience by itself is not science.”

Source : "Pure Phenomenology: Its Method and Its Field of Investigation". Inaugural Lecture at Freiburg im Breisgau, May 3, 1917.

“The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States.”

“Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.”

“I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.”