信息消耗的东西相当明显:它消耗接收者的注意力。因此,信息的丰富导致注意力的贫乏。
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.
钱财地位,往往成为丛集怨恨的渊薮;才华能力,常常就是招致灾祸的根由;名望声誊,往往成为引来毁谤的媒介;欢欣快乐,常常就是走向悲凉的开始。
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.