School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.

Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.