Nam June Paik - Quotes

Quotes

  • "Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life."
  • "Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence."
  • "The future is now."
  • "The only way to win a race is to run alone."
  • "There is no rewind button for life."
  • "When too perfect, lieber Gott böse."

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