Let's Get On Our Knees And Pray.

In Theory, Cars Are Fairly Simple. If They Don't Start, It's Either The Fuel System Or The Electrical System. Teach Yourself About The Path Of Each In Your Engine And Tracing It Is Fairly Straightforward. But At The Beginning, Mastering Each New System Seems Like An Unreachable Shore. The Car Is Effectively A Black Box.

Am I About To Feel Really, Really Stupid?

I Believe That Inside Every Tool Is A Hammer.

Of Course, I Love Tools. I Also Love Arranging Them, To The Point Where I Came Up With A Name For My Organizing Metric: First-order Retrievability.

I Am Incrementally A Pessimist, But I See The International Debate That Edward Snowden Has Engendered, And I Think This Is Exactly Where The Discussion Should Be. So, I Would Say I'm More Optimistic Than Pessimistic.