The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-realized man is a disoriented man.

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.

And too soon Marred are those so early Made.

I was asked a series of ques

The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There's no question about that.

I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor you'll always get bad acting. Every actor is scared just like a regular person.

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.