> Why does an article in the New York Times have to flex and bend to give a liberation angle to a word processor? "It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeate

> Why does an article in the New York Times have to flex and bend to give a liberation angle to a word processor? "It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilisation advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like the cavalry charges in a battle--they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments." --A. N. Whitehead