Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact—from calling on us to look through a heap of millet-seed in order to be sure that there is no pearl in it. – George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, 1879
Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. – C.P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March 1971