
“I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.”
on flying; quoted in [John E. McNamara, Remembering Alan's Humor, 2006, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-memoria/2006Jun/0009.html, 2006-12-26]
Source: Reflected in You
“I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.”
on flying; quoted in [John E. McNamara, Remembering Alan's Humor, 2006, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-memoria/2006Jun/0009.html, 2006-12-26]
1920s, Marriage and Morals (1929)
“Christ, all you psychiatrists think about is sex — sex, sex, sex, sex, sex …”
The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal
“We have planes, trains, automobiles and boats, … What if there was a fifth mode?”
on the Hyperloop.
[Garber, Megan, The Real iPod: Elon Musk's Wild Idea for a 'Jetson Tunnel' from S.F. to L.A., http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/the-real-ipod-elon-musks-wild-idea-for-a-jetson-tunnel-from-sf-to-la/259825/, 21 July 2012, The Atlantic, 13 July 2012]
Ch III : The Tool
Terre des Hommes (1939)
Context: Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures — in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. Do our dreamers hold that the invention of writing, of printing, of the sailing ship, degraded the human spirit?
It seems to me that those who complain of man's progress confuse ends with means. True, that man who struggles in the unique hope of material gain will harvest nothing worth while. But how can anyone conceive that the machine is an end? It is a tool. As much a tool as is the plough. The microscope is a tool. What disservice do we do the life of the spirit when we analyze the universe through a tool created by the science of optics, or seek to bring together those who love one another and are parted in space?
“You have a transportation fetish.
I have a Gideon fetish. It's been weeks.”
Source: Reflected in You
“Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex.”
Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
New York City (p. 282).
States of Desire: Travels in Gay America (1980)