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“Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.”
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“The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.”
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“I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.”
Source : "Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis: Meditations on Computer Systems Development". Book by Patrick McDermott, 2002.
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“The combination of a blazer over any T-shirt with a pair of jeans is foolproof.”
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“To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which though it's never self-conscious, amounts o a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.”
Source : "Letter from America, 1946-2004".
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“This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.”
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“Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]”
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“I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value.”
Source : Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.118, Arktos
