Korisna neupitnost

people in most behaviors, and even in computing, seek, even if only unconsciously, a useful thoughtlessness, some so that their lives are felt to be less complex and some so that they can build on the accepted foundation to examine new concerns, but in all cases so that life feels more manageable.

Eric Rabkin, in Humanist 18.545
(citira Willard McCarty, Humanist 18.563: material-cultural computing)