"Things Are More Easily Acquired Than Got Rid Of" (Thoreau)

"For the last two decades, I have spent
83% of my waking hours enjoying the freedom of not having a cellphone,
5% feeling smug about it,
2% in situations in which a phone would have been awfully convenient and
10% fielding incredulous questions.

...I explain that my colleagues are very tolerant,
the firm provides me with all of the latest communication tools
(computer, telephone, Post-its)
right at my desk
....
indeed people lived this way back at the
Dawn of Civilization, circa 1992"

from "My Life as a Cellphone Holdout" by Gary Sernovitz, Wallstreet Journal, 9 August 2013