Stop being a victim and waiting for somebody else to open up an opportunity for you!
As I said back in 1984, the idea of logistics is not only about oil, about ammunitions and supplies but also about images.
When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. . . Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.
Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.
Virtuality will destroy reality.
These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes more powerful than reality will be the day of the big accident. Mankind never experienced such an extraordinary accident.
The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the gravest threats to democracy in the near future. It is, then, imperative to develop a democratic technological culture.
You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.
I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. . . . You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.