Use the new technologies for the old purposes.
I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.
No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.