The average American consumes about 34 gigabytes of data and information each day, an increase of about 350 percent over nearly three decades, according to a report published Wednesday by researchers at the University of California, San Diego.
From An Average American Consumes 34 Gigabytes a Day, Study Says – The New York Times (2009)
Quotes
Masking
“Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.” Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
On the motives of others
In the mind’s eye conjure up a picture of one of your primitive ancestors of cave-dwelling times—a short, misshapen, filthy, snarling hulk of a man standing, legs spread, club upraised, breathing hate and animosity as he looks fiercely just ahead. Such a picture hardly depicts the divine dignity of man. But allow us to enlarge the picture. In front of this animated human crouches a saber-toothed tiger. Behind him, a woman and two children. Immediately you recognize that such a picture stands for the beginnings of much that is fine and noble in the human race, but the man is the same in both pictures. Only, in the second sketch you are favored with a widened horizon. You therein discern the motivation of this evolving mortal. His attitude becomes praiseworthy because you understand him. If you could only fathom the motives of your associates, how much better you would understand them. If you could only know your fellows, you would eventually fall in love with them.
The Urantia Book 100:4.5 (1098.2)
History
“As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
Goals
“To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the “what is next” of our lives. Without dreams and goals, there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.”
Mark Twain