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

- 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 f…

- 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 pl…

- William J. Mitchell

Exile is a series of photographs without texts.

- 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 unchal…

- William J. Mitchell

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

- William J. Mitchell

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, u…

- 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 capable of discriminating the variety…

- William J. Mitchell