Daily Inspiration Quote by David Ogden Stiers

Stiers’ line lands like a sigh from inside the machine: not a grand technophobic rant, but an actor’s weary diagnosis of how modern life edits itself into fragments. The “we” is doing a lot of work here. It’s an invitation and an indictment, collapsing the distance between the people who complain about the pace of culture and the people who feed it. Nobody is exempt; everyone scrolls.

The sentence is built as a triptych of loss: speed, depth, permanence. “Speed” isn’t just about technology; it’s about the social expectation of instant reaction. The moment you can respond immediately, you’re supposed to. “Lack of depth” points to what that immediacy costs: attention becomes a scarce resource, nuance a luxury item. Then Stiers sharpens the critique with a phrase that feels almost physical: “disposable information.” Not misinformation, not ignorance, but information treated like single-use plastic. Content is produced to be consumed, discarded, replaced - and the replacement is already buffering.

Coming from an actor, the subtext is particularly pointed. Performance is repetition, rehearsal, inhabiting a text long enough to find its layers. Stiers is speaking from a craft that demands slowness and interpretation, pushing back against a culture that rewards hot takes over considered takes. The lament isn’t nostalgia for a pre-digital Eden; it’s a warning about what happens when society confuses being informed with being saturated.