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

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

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.

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

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

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