"Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it." - Harper Lee
Totally love this quote, and that's despite the fact that I am the poster boy for people who have minds like empty rooms. Naturally, I didn't find this quote in amongst the library stacks, but stumbled across it on someone's MySpace profile.
Whatever.
This reminds me of the "if you work hard for something, you'll appreciate it" argument which has kids mowing lots of lawns to buy a car. Until they say "fuck it" and start seeling drugs, which is so much faster than mowing lawns.
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