What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. - (Baudrillard, Jean - America)

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. - (Baudrillard, Jean - America)

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. - (Baudrillard, Jean - Automobiles)

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? - (Baudrillard, Jean - Bankers and Banking)

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. - (Baudrillard, Jean - Bores and Boredom)

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them. - (Baudrillard, Jean - Business)

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. - (Baudrillard, Jean - Change)

A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome. - (Baudrillard, Jean - Christmas)

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake. - (Baudrillard, Jean - Cities and City Life)

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. - (Baudrillard, Jean - Cities and City Life)

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night. - (Baudrillard, Jean - Civilization)

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. - (Baudrillard, Jean - Computers)

Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion. - (Baudrillard, Jean - Computers)

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. - (Baudrillard, Jean - Critics and Criticism)

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers -- and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic. - (Baudrillard, Jean - Culture)