V. S. Naipaul Quotes
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
Naipaul, V. S. "Two Worlds." Nobel Lecture, The Nobel Foundation, 7 Dec. 2001.
At that moment Hoover was the first politician to ever use the then new technology of a Teleprompter. Hoover was video recording a political speech for the Republican Convention. The teleprompter operator had not kept up with his pace of the speech, and with no protocols or other procedures, this quotation is what Hoover said. Hoover, a great engineer before politics was always interested in new technology. When Secretary of Commerce, he was the first politician ever to appear on television.
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul TC, commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, and familiarly, Vidia Naipaul, was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.
