The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Carl Jung
As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas."
Samuel Johnson 1751
Psychiatric enlightenment has begun to debunk the superstition that to manage a machine you must become a machine, and that to raise masters of the machine you must mechanize the impulses of childhood.
Erik H. Erikson