But perhaps the greatest threat to the efficiency of the megamachine came from within: from its rigidity and repression of individual ability, and fr… - Lewis Mumford

Loving underlies effective learning: indeed, it is the basis of all cultural transference and interchange. No teaching machine can supply this.

Virtue is not a chemical product, as Taine once described it: it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key. That, I submit, is what has happened in our own lifetime.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.