In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

Everything to do with time is hideous.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.