“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.”
Politics of the Very Worst, New York: Semiotext(e), 1999, p. 89
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French philosopher 1932–2018Related quotes
“Inventing as you go, are you?”
“Yes, I am quite godlike in that way, if no other.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 18 (p. 328)
“When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.”
Source: Earth House Hold
interview published in Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1988) edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, p. 208-209
Context: God was always invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time — life and death — stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
"Cub Reporter" http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/autobio/3.htm#Cub%20Reporter
An Autobiographical Novel (1991)
“The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.”
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 6: "The Nineteenth Century"
Source: Put Out More Flags (1942), Ch. 1 : Autumn, § 7