“I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.” — Chuck Close
“Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.” — David Byrne
“I never could make out what those damn dots meant.” — Randolph Churchill
“It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.” — Marvin Minsky
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?” — Joyce Carol Oates