Luca Telese Quotes

(On the role of interns) How can you not realise that being here at Expo right now gives you access to a world of relationships, contacts and cultures that no internship or work experience in the Italian job market can offer?

(On criticism of possible control by multinationals over Expo 2015) Yes, McDonald's is sponsoring it, but in exactly the same way as it sponsors the stadium.

(Concerning Expo 2015) There is everything, but also the opposite of everything: the world of vegans and carnivores, Israelis extolling genetically modified cherry tomatoes and GMO corn, and Coldiretti explaining and describing the value and importance of being GMO-free.

Come il Partito Democratico abbia potuto votare una mozione che equipara il nazi-fascismo e il comunismo è uno di quei misteri di fede che meritano di essere approfonditi. Si capisce bene la posizione della destra, che sogna di poter imporre questa fantasiosa equazione da mezzo secolo. E si capisce il voto dei poveracci, degli immemori, di chi non c’era o di chi non hai mai aperto un libro, di qualche sempliciotto demente che cerca luce o gloria. Tuttavia la storia del Novecento, piaccia o meno, è un'altra, e certo non potrà essere riscritta da qualche piccolo apprendista revisionista momentaneamente coinvolto in una gita scolastica a Bruxelles o a Strasburgo.

What will happen after Expo ? Maroni and Pisapia had both talked about campuses, but there is still nothing on the horizon. If everything has to be planned to optimise costs, then let's decide now! Also because tomorrow it will all be dismantled. The mistake is that everything obviously had to be designed with an awareness and understanding of what should come next.

(About Expo 2015)This place is full of non-GMO cultures. Just look at the Coldiretti stand, which is an important supporter and is always full.

I have interviewed Giovanni Rana no more than three times in my life. But once – in 1998 – for various reasons, I spent a whole day with him and his son Luca in San Giovanni Lupatoto, in the heart of the family's industrial empire. To describe them, this image, which I will never forget, would suffice: Giovanni recalls his early days as an apprentice in the family's artisan pasta factory, while Luca looks on admiringly. Shortly afterwards, he gets up and shows me how the entire company has grown up around their family home: a house-factory, a life physically intertwined with the idea of work.

How the Democratic Party could have voted for a motion that equates Nazi-fascism and communism is one of those mysteries of faith that deserve to be explored. The position of the right wing, which has been dreaming of imposing this fanciful equation for half a century, is easy to understand. And one can understand the vote of the poor, the forgetful, those who were not there or who have never opened a book, a few simple-minded fools seeking light or glory. However, the history of the 20th century, like it or not, is different, and it certainly cannot be rewritten by a few small-time revisionists momentarily involved in a school trip to Brussels or Strasbourg.

Ho intervistato non più di tre volte Giovanni Rana nella mia vita. Ma una volta – nel 1998 – per motivi diversi ho passato una intera giornata con lui e con suo figlio Luca, a San Giovanni Lupatoto, nel cuore del sistema industriale di famiglia. Per raccontare come sono fatti basterebbe questa immagine, che non scorderò mai: c’è Giovanni che ricorda i suoi esordi da garzone nel pastificio artigianale di famiglia, e Luca che lo guarda ammirato. Poco dopo si alza e mi mostra come tutta l’azienda sia cresciuta intorno alla loro casa di famiglia: una casa-fabbrica, una vita avvitata anche fisicamente intorno all’idea del lavoro.