"Observation: Multi-Screen viewing is seemingly anticipated by Burrough's Cut-Up technique. He suggested re-arranging words and images to evade rational analysis, allowing subliminal hints of the future tp leak through. . . . These reference points established, an emergent worldview becomes gradually discernible amidst the media's white noise."
-Adrian Veidt in Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
"My publishers took The Adult Life Of Toulouse-Lautrec off the market because they were afraid Harold Robbins might sue me. I had told them that I use other people's material - I appropriate - and this was not plagiarism. Plagiarism is using somebody else's material and representing it as your own." -Kathy Acker quoted in Mondo 2000 User's Guide To The New Edge
"Appropriation, cut-up techniques, digital sampling, and sensory-mishmash hodge-podging in general leads into hypertexts, a total information system of links between objects. By appropriating other materials, it is possible to create an entirely original work of LINKS. Negativland does this remarkably well." -Lloyd Taco, Appropriation And Neopolyappropriationism
"Yeah, but not just the right of free travel. I'm talking about eleven."
"Because, MAN, NOBODY'S PERFECT. That's why we need computers. Because, MAN, NOBODY'S PERFECT."
"So what's your point?""MAN, NOBODY'S PERFECT."
"Do you know how many TIME ZONES there are in the Soviet Union?"
-Negativland, from Escape From Noise, "Time Zones"
"These days, appropriation has gone SO FAR you sometimes have to reverse-plagiarize - pass your own stuff off as SOMEONE ELSE'S in order to be taken seriously. It lends you an air of authority, as if the quote was taken from someone who ought to know: people have got that used to quotes from authorities to back stuff up. But without LINKS to the original, who KNOWS who said it?"
-Dr. Leon Neapolitan, Appropriating Authority
"The advantages of Hypertext run deep; this is why they will be great. Hypertext will let us represent knowledge in a more natural way. Human knowledge forms an unbroken web, and human problems sprawl across the fuzzy boundaries between fields. Neat rows of books do a poor job of representing the structure of our knowledge."
-K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation