"The West, with its concepts of time management, profit and efficiency, cannot justify the beading of a dress, the embroidery of a blouse, or the weaving of a carpet unless a machine can do these things in a matter of seconds."
"San Francisco is already becoming, what historian Kevin Starr describes as "a cross between Carmel and Calcutta."
"Now you talk to 15-year-old kids and their 9-year-old brother or sister is using stuff that they don't understand."