"Men became powerful to the extent that they neglected the real world of wheat and wool, food and clothes, and centered their attention on the purely quantitative representation of it in tokens and symbols: to think in terms of mere weight and number, to make quantity not alone an indication of value but the criterion of value — that was the contribution of capitalism to the mechanical world-picture(25)."

–Lewis Mumford, "Technics and Civilization"

"So the priority is right here and now. In fact, there’s only one priority, and that’s attention to the present moment, whatever its content (45)."