“I don’t see much difference between bossing my kid around academically and bossing him around the way I do about everything else.

“A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you’ve already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

“Unproductive pleasures pall eventually.

“Mistakes are natural. Instead of treating them as disasters, make them easy to acknowledge and easy to fix. Leonardo da Vinci more or less invented the sketch as a way to make drawing bear a greater weight of exploration. Open-source software has fewer bugs because it admits the possibility of bugs.

“In a stunning reversal of more than 200 years of conventional wisdom, failure—traditionally believed to be an unacceptable outcome for a wide range of tasks and goals—is now increasingly seen as a viable alternative to success, sources confirmed Tuesday.

“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..