Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

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.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.