Quick is not always best.

If Shakespeare was alive, would he use Twitter? What about Da Vinci? Or Mozart? Would they blog? Or use Facebook?

Maybe they would. Let’s say that Mozart could certainly see the value in a networking site that let him organize wild parties* and Da Vinci would have loved to let the world know in 140 characters or less how he really felt about Michelangelo**. But would they have used those tools to write Romeo and Juliet? Or to show off the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

Probably not. Here’s the message: some things are just complicated.

Some things take time and effort to learn, to do and to explain. In a culture in which we’re constantly offered newer, faster ways to do stuff, we can sometimes feel that taking time and care over things is a bit old-fashioned. But that’s okay. Quality is worth the wait. Don’t confuse blogging, tweeting and so on with work: it isn’t always. It has its place, but sometimes a church ceiling just takes 40 years.

* Even if it enabled the the authorities to raid those parties.
** He hated his guts. Really, really despised him. Seriously.