Ralph Emerson

You might have to suffer through a literary slant for a bit, I am surrounded by my many many beautiful books again and I chanced to pluck my copy of "English Traits" from my shelf, haplessly flicking from page to page I spotted this wondrous paragraph again:

"Machinery has been applied to all work, and carried to such perfection, that little is left for the men but to mind the engines and feed the furnaces." Ralph Waldo Emerson

It made me smile. Are we still merely minding engines ? Do we merely answer the call of some machined bell or whistle, must dash - an e-mail's just arrived.