Batteries Quote by William J. Mitchell

We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable…

— William J. Mitchell

Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally…

— William J. Mitchell

Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the…

— William J. Mitchell

The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the…

— William J. Mitchell

Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in…

— William J. Mitchell

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

— William J. Mitchell

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…

— William J. Mitchell

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

— William J. Mitchell

The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming, combining, altering,…

— William J. Mitchell

There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same…

— William J. Mitchell

What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is…

— William J. Mitchell

Exile is a series of photographs without texts.

— William J. Mitchell