“To clarify, add detail.

Clutter is not an attribute of information but a failure of design.

“There are two separate social hierarchies, one based on wealth (desperate, nervous, coasting) and one on education (reads nothing, reads Time, reads The Economist). The two used to be tied together because only the rich could afford education. In the 20th century they drifted apart. The interesting question is whether they will converge again, not because wealth causes education, but because education causes wealth.

“The media is not ideologically driven but conflict-driven.

“The short head will be human, the fat middle social, and the long tail algorithmic.

“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.