106 Quotes by Trevor Paglen

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

Anything humans can do in space, robots can do better.

Digital surveillance programs require concrete data centres; intelligence agencies are based in real buildings. Surveillance systems ultimately consist of technologies, people, and the vast network of material resources that supports them.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn't its business model?

I am not a journalist or an academic.

When people understand that they are constantly monitored, they are more conformist - they are less willing to take up controversial positions - and that kind of mass conformity is incompatible with democracy.

I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug.

I can't imagine anything more beautiful on this planet than looking up at the stars and seeing a kind of artificial star moving through the night sky.