The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

Images contaminate us like viruses.

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great.

I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.

... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.