“The vast majority of practitioners of XHTML, CSS and JavaScript are almost exclusively dedicated to behavioral work — interfaces and templates. There’s very little narrative design being done with these tools, and that’s a shame.

“Strive always to see all of AI as Abstract Seeing.

“Decreasing the price of something can increase its value.

“For a good symbolic place for a transition in your life, go to a beach. The sea meets the land, and generally you can also see the sky meeting the sea on one side and the sky meeting the land on the other. So there you are among all those boundaries, right at the place where life climbed out of the sea, with lots of distance for staring off into..

“The person we pass on the street sees our sneakers but would have a harder time inferring how much we’re spending teaching our kids to read.

“Dreams are meant to be grown out of, not fulfilled. The path to transcendance can pass through the point of fulfillment, yes. But if you’re doing things right, you won’t notice when you pass that point. You’ll be too busy chasing new dreams you came up with along the way.

“People often mistake their own shortcomings for those of society.

“The idea that some people are hard workers and some people are lazy is misleading at best. One’s work ethic is determined more by environment than any intrinsic quality.