It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

The mind knows...that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that restricts our world's path to points that tell an internally consistent story.

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.