He had enacted the adventure of vanishing into thin air and being reborn, phoenixlike, as someone else - literally, a self-made man.
Miles Harvey
The telescope, that epitome of the visual prosthesis, projected an image of a world beyond our reach and thus another way of moving about in the world, the logistics of perception inaugurating an unknown conveyance of sight that produced a telescoping of near and far, a phenomenon of acceleration obliterating our experience of distances and dimensions.
Paul Virilio
We dislike entrepeneurs like Arader or Gates, in part, because somewhere in our dark hearts we want to be like them. We wish we had their foresight and confidence, maybe even their ruthlessness, their ability to spot an oportunity and grab it. It angers us that we came to the scene too late, that the doors are now closed, that the money has been made, the power taken, the fame handed out. In many ways these men are heirs to the explorers who first came to this country, brash mercenaries like de Soto and Coronado. We may revile them for their crassness, their avarice, their destructivness, but who doesn't yearn to have been in their shoes as they strode deep into blank spots on the map?
Miles Harvey
