"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation." --Jean Arp
"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
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain." --J.K. Rowling
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." --Albert Einstein
It is summertime. This means the leisure of days in the sun, little or few alarm clocks, mornings met with the joy of unfilled days. For me, it also means a time to separate myself from my technology. Generally, as the school year progresses, I use, and become dependent upon, technology more and more until, inevitably, I am completely addicted. And so, I use this break from 'normal life' to detox my system from the dependence upon constant noise and input into my brain. This 'unplugging' is indefinite, and will probably not last as long as I'd hope, but this means that Quote of the Day is also indefinitely postponed. (I'd update from my phone if I could get it to work, but alas, it comes out screwy when I do that.) So thank you to my faithful followers who will miss this--I will spend the summer collecting up a new batch of fresh and fun quotes. :] Have a happy summer.