Paul Virilio

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.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

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

Images contaminate us like viruses.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

Let us put it this way, techno-scientific intelligence is presently insufficiently spread among society at large to enable us to interpret the sorts of techno-scientific advances that are taking shape today.

Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.