39 Quotes by Paul Virilio

There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.

Si inventer la substance, c'est indirectement inventer l'accident, plus l'invention est puissant, performante, et plus l'accident est dramatique.

Il faut penser à ce qui arrive - nous sommes les producteurs de l'avenir.

Bombe atomique hier, bombe informatique aujourd'hui et, demain, bombe génétique?

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.