If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.
Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.
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.
A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.
History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.