All We Know Is The Phenomenon: We Spend Our Time Sending Messages To Each
Other, Talking And Trying To Listen At The Same Time, Exchanging Information.
All we know is the phenomenon: we spend our time sending messages to each
other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information.
This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with
our lives."
-- Lewis Thomas, "The Lives of a Cell"
What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at
television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that
we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most
of our lives working....
