Godfrey Reggio Quotes

“So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.”

“I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.”

“I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.”

“It's not that we use technology, we live technology.”

“Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.”

“Don't worry too much if you don't pass exams, so long as you feel you have understood the subject. It's amazing what you can get by the ability to reason things out by conventional methods, getting down to the basics of what is happening.”

“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.”

“It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.”

“Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.”

“I joined the staff of EMI in Middlesex in 1951, where I worked for a while on radar and guided weapons and later ran a small design laboratory. During this time, I became particularly interested in computers, which were then in their infancy. It was interesting, pioneering work at that time: drums and tape decks had to be designed from scratch.”