QotD: Writing

[liveonearth]

There are exactly two media for thought
which we know we can use well:
oral culture and writing.
Writing is better:
more permanent, more adaptable,
richer, deeper, subtler,
with a longer memory.
-- Cosma Rohilla Shalizi

Comments

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

No doubt. You can get pegged to something you wrote eons ago, and might not even agree with anymore.