"Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another."
- John Cage
"If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not."
"We, the garden of technology. We, undecidable."
"Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow."
"Computer mistake in grade-giving resulted in academic failure of several brilliant students. After some years the mistake was discovered. Letter was sent to each student inviting him to resume his stu..."
"Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what they are doing. They're involved in high finance. Fascinating form..."
"So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to bu..."
"I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is."
"College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books."
"Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who're touched, put 'em in asylums. Pack off old ones to 'senior communities,' nursing homes. ..."