the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

-Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
  'A Coney Island of the Mind', section15.

Technology, while adding daily to our physical ease, throws dailyanother loop of fine wire around our souls. It contributes hugely to our mobility, which we must not confuse with freedom. The extensions of our senses, which we find so fascinating, are not adding to the discrimination of our minds, since we need increasingly to take the reading of a needle on a dial to discover whether we think something isgood or bad, or right or wrong.

-Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)
  'My Faith in Democratic Capitalism', in Fortune, Oct.