Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs. - Václav Havel

It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to the automatism of technological civilization and the industrial consumer society, for they, too, are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in the post-totalitarian societies.

I think the Anthropic Cosmological Principle brings to us an idea perhaps as old as humanity itself: that we are not at all just an accidental anomaly, the microscopic caprice of a tiny particle whirling in the endless depth of the universe. Instead, we are mysteriously connected to the entire universe, we are mirrored in it, just as the entire evolution of the universe is mirrored in us.