"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place."
(Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1999)

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
(George Orwell)