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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.

Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.