Paul Virilio Quotes

Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.

I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way 'round

I refuse to be beaten in any way shape or form, so I'm gonna beat this too.

Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.

No other road, no other way, No day but today!

I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.

The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because religion has contributed to the world's problems, it must develop specific and practical ways to help solve those problems.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rung the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

The only way to improve tomorrow is to know what you did wrong today.

So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way.

And that's the way I have always lived, for the laughs – today. N-O-W. No Other Way.

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

If we want to be respected and honored when we're older, then we must lay the groundwork by respecting and honoring the elders we meet in our lives today. How we treat them today is the way we'll be treated later.

Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200 years was possible due to the fact that the growth of scientific knowledge is exponential; that is, its rate of expansion is proportional to how much is already known. The more we know, the faster we can know more. For example, we have amassed more knowledge since World War II than all the knowledge amassed in our 2-million-year evolution on this planet. In fact, the amount of knowledge that our scientists gain doubles approximately every 10 to 20 years.

The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You're thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

We are victims of our own success. We have let technology lead the way, pushing ever faster to newer, faster, and more powerful systems, with nary a moment to rest, contemplate, and to reflect upon why, how, and for whom all this energy has been expended.

Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the Industrial Revolution and the flowering of modern capitalism.