Almost all civilized peoples have been brought up to think of themselves as ghosts in machines, - Alan Watts

"In solving problems, technology creates new problems, and we seem, as in Through the Looking-Glass, to have to keep running faster and faster to stay where we are. The question is then whether technical progress actually "gets anywhere" in the sense of increasing the delight and happiness of life."

If, then, we are to be fully human and fully alive and aware, it seems that we must be willing to suffer for our pleasures.

[T]he less I preach, the more likely I am to be heard.