Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.
If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.
I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.
I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that would be disturbing. It will be disturbing theater with songs. There will be no people on wires. That's probably the next one of those things on my bucket list of things that I need to write before I get hit by that car.
I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories. . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . . One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires.
The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow. ' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul. . . its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
Wired people should know something about wires.
Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.
Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell.
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.
