Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.
Don DeLilloWhat good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.
Don DeLilloPeople hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
Don DeLillo