Dennis Gabor

“The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.”

“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.”

“Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.”

“The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man’s ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.”