Paul Virilio Quotes

When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

Paul Virilio

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• But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

  

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• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

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• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

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• I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

  

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• You can almost taste the pressure now.

  

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• The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

  

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• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  

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• I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.

  

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• Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.

  

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• I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.

  

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• I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.

  

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• People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.

  

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• Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

  

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• In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

  

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• When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

  

  Paul Virilio
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Progress