Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.

The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it

Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.