Cage’s postwar practice ... established a functional independence between composition,  

   performance and listening, de-linking operations—production, transmission and reception—that had

   been systematically fused in accounts of “message transmission,” initially generated by WWII-era

   research into acoustics, telephone circuit design and missile targeting ...

                                                                         -Liz Kotz, Disintegrated Circuits: Rethinking the Score in the Postwar ‘Aesthetics of Indeterminacy’

    If your children are attending college, the chances are that when they graduate they will be unable    

   to write ordinary, expository English with any real degree of structure and lucidity. 

                                                               - Merrill Sheils. Why Johnny Can’t Write