Tag archive for ‘hero’
Personal Heroes Series: Sergey Korolyov
Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov (January 12, 1907 – January 14, 1966) “The road to the stars is open.“
Personal Heroes Series: Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) “Dare to be naïve.“
Personal Heroes Series: J.G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard (November 15, 1930 -April 19, 2009) “Modern technology offers an endless field day to any deviant strains in our personalities.”
Personal Heroes Series: Patrick McGoohan
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) “I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.“
Personal Heroes Series: Edward R. Murrow
Edward “Ed” Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow) (April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) “If we confuse dissent with disloyalty— if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox— if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping [...]
Personal Heroes Series: Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. “
Personal Heroes Series: Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC.
Personal Heroes Series: Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard (June 20, 1929 – March 6, 2007) “Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: A hyperreal. The territory [...]
Personal Heroes Series: Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson aka RAW (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) “Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”
Personal Heroes Series: Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 -December 31, 1980) “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. “