Robert Twigger > Quotes

“Every advance in information technology involves choosing what you want to preserve and what you want to ditch. Scanning rare books on to microfilm is a costly business. The library won't let you do it yourself - they decide first which books should be scanned and which should just rot away in the basement.
Against that eventuality, people should start hoarding the kind of books committees of rational people will decide against scanning into a database.”
― Robert Twigger

“Then there are panacea programs and actions: bring back national service and the juvenile problem will end, stop advertising on TV, ban internet porn, revive grammar schools, ditch the EU. People pin their hopes on a single action curing a host of interconnected problems. But they forget the world is how it is for very good reason.”
― Robert Twigger, WALK

“Literally, budo means ‘the way of war’, but it has connotations far beyond this. It connotes a way of life involving sacrifice, honour and pain.”
― Robert Twigger, Angry White Pyjamas: An Oxford Poet Trains with the Tokyo Riot Police

“In a way, the world as we see it is the construction of people who have to make real what others manage to imagine or dream.”
― Robert Twigger, White Mountain