Virtual Drive

Famous quotes containing the words virtual and/or drive:

    “Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary.... He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

    “You may drive a dog off the King’s armchair, and it will climb into the preacher’s pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.”
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)