For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conver…

- Kenneth Goldsmith

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

- Kenneth Goldsmith

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

- Kenneth Goldsmith

And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural artifact itself. What…

- Kenneth Goldsmith

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.

- Kenneth Goldsmith

If you don't want something to exist - and there are many reasons to want to keep things private - keep it off the web. But if you put it in digital …

- Kenneth Goldsmith

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound,…

- Kenneth Goldsmith

It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.

- Kenneth Goldsmith

I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.

- Kenneth Goldsmith