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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe. ”
In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles. ”
I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones. ”
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment. ”
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. ”
Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet. ”
As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if they are commercial lies. What we don't see anymore is ethics. ”
When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors. ”
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. ”
I'm a machine man, and I head a machine. ”