The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.
Men are not flattered by being shown that there is a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's because of happenstance. But very often, it's mysterious to them.
It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.
No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary (as stupid as the question about the meaning of life)
