Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Mihai Nadin

Born: 1938 (age 87)
Bio: Mihai Nadin is a scholar and researcher in electrical engineering, computer science, aesthetics, semiotics, human-computer interaction, computational design, post-industrial society, and anticipatory systems.
Known for:
- The civilization of illiteracy (1997)
- Jewish: Does it Make a Difference? (2000)
- Jenseits der Schriftkultur