Information organized in small chunks that can be accessed and sequenced at random is much more valuable than when you have to take it in serial form

Extract from Lila by Robert M. Pirsig Published by Bantam Press, 1991

In Robert Pirsig's novel, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals, the main character Phaedrus lives on a boat and is traveling on the Hudson river.

He is writing a book and uses a system of index cards to record and organise his ideas.