"You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that. - Douglas Adams

Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.

But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: