You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and youโve got a book in eight or nine months.
Vaclav SmilEveryone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.
Vaclav SmilEnergy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.
Vaclav SmilApple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, thereโs nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know theyโre played out.
Vaclav Smil