William J. Mitchell Quotes

• That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do with sustainability of cities. The ability of cities to, over time, remain in balance with the resource streams that are available to them, and they have to do with social justice and equity of the fundamental conditions of satisfactory citizenship.

  William J. Mitchell

  Thinking, Cities, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.

  William J. Mitchell

  Skills, Cities, Political

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally rethinking the automobile, thinking of it as a robot on four wheels, essentially, something that can communicate with other intelligent devices, it can operate in a coordinated way, you can really start to fundamentally rethink urban personal mobility.

  William J. Mitchell

  Successful, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• No existe una solución mágica porque la congestión del tráfico urbano surge del hecho de que mucha gente quiere estar en el mismo sitio a la misma hora con frecuencia.

  William J. Mitchell

  Personas, Quieren, Hechos

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Exile is a series of photographs without texts.

  William J. Mitchell

  Photograph, Exile, Series

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• ...people have always known, at least since Moses denounced the Golden Calf, that images were dangerous, that they can captivate the onlooker and steal the soul.

  William J. Mitchell

  People, Soul, Golden

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• Ha pasado un interludio de falsa inocencia. Hoy, al entrar en la era postfotográfica, debemos enfrentarnos de nuevo a la fragilidad inerradicable de nuestras distinciones ontológicas entre lo imaginario y lo real, y a la trágica elusividad del sueño cartesiano. En efecto, hemos aprendido a fijar las sombras, pero no a asegurar sus significados ni a estabilizar sus valores de verdad; siguen parpadeando en las paredes de la caverna de Plato.

  William J. Mitchell

  Dream, Wall, Plato

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• We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable when you think about solving these problems. And we try to challenge those assumptions.

  William J. Mitchell

  Smart, Thinking, Cities

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming, combining, altering, and analyzing images are as essential to the digital artist as brushes and pigments to a painter.

  William J. Mitchell

  Artist, Essentials, Tools

  William J. Mitchell (1994). “The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-photographic Era”, p.6, MIT Press

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• What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.

  William J. Mitchell

  Evil, Historical, Needs

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• Todo el mundo piensa que un automóvil necesita un motor. Pues bien, un automóvil no necesita necesariamente un motor. Lo que hacemos es cambiar los motores eléctricos a las ruedas de nuestros automóviles y así tenemos un tipo completamente diferente de cosa en la que tenemos cuatro ruedas inteligentes independientes en lugar de un motor de combustión interna tradicional y el tren de potencia y así sucesivamente.

  William J. Mitchell

  Independent, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.

  William J. Mitchell

  Photography, Language

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• We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what pictures are doing, understanding them, doesn't seem necessarily to give us power over them.

  William J. Mitchell

  Knowing, Giving, Understanding

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• The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the place where images and words find and lose their conscience, their aesthetic and ethical identity.

  William J. Mitchell

  Photography, Struggle, Reality

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• Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You never have to worry about filling up your car, never go to the gas station, never plug it in, never do any of these things.

  William J. Mitchell

  Filling Up, Electric Vehicles, Worry

  Source: bigthink.com

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• La mayoría de los automóviles pasan el 80% de su tiempo sentados sin hacer nada. Funcionan con gasolina; van a velocidades muy altas, que de hecho, en condiciones urbanas, no se necesitan. Estas altas velocidades generan enormes requisitos de seguridad, etcétera, etcétera. Ahora se puede ir modificando el automóvil. Puedes hacer que el tren de potencia sea más eficiente y puedes mejorar la seguridad y todo ese tipo de cosas que merecen mucho la pena.

  William J. Mitchell

  Safety, Needs, Sitting

  Source: bigthink.com

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