The best technology is invisible. It works so well that you don't even notice it.

我写作的正是为了不让自己在整个人生中梦游。

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

"The past is not dead ground, and to traverse it is not a sterile exercise."