There is a need to maintain a sense of wonder about the world around us. I laughed out loud when I read this quote. Still, perhaps I don't have the intellectual wherewithall to truly understand.

'[The] Blog People (or their subclass who are interested in computers and the glorification of information) have a fanatical belief in the transforming power of digitization and a consequent horror of, and contempt for, heretics who do not share that belief... Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs.'

-- Michael Gorman
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