"Culture is where we live our shared mental lives" - Brian Eno

"Culture as a system of knowledge" - Brian Eno

"...culture is best seen not as complexes of concrete behavior patterns -- customs, usages, traditions, habit clusters -- as has, by and large, been the case up to now, but as a set of control mechanisms -- plans, receipes, rules, instructions (what computer engineers call "programs") -- for the governing of behavior. The second idea is that man is precisely the animal most desperately dependent upon such extragenetic, outside-the-skin control mechanisms, such cultural programs, for ordering this behavior." - Clifford Geertz

"Culture, the accumulated totality of such patterns, is not just an ornament of human existence but -- the principal basis of its specificity -- an essential condition for it." - Clifford Geertz

We live...in an "information gap". Between what our body tells us and what we have to know in order to function, there is a vaccum we must fill ourselves, and we fill it with information (or misinformation) provided by our culture." - Clifford Geertz

"A society for us is a maximal social group consisting of both sexes and all ages and exhibiting a wide range of interactive behavior. Culture, on the other hand, refers to the learned repertory of thoughts and sctions exhibited by the members of social groups - repertories transmissible independently of genetic heredity from one generation to the next." - Marvin Harris