Perspective Is Worth 80 Iq Points.

Every Technology Really Needs To Be Shipped With A Special Manual - Not How To Use It But Why, When, And For What.

I Had The Fortune Or Misfortune To Learn How To Read Fluently Starting At The Age Of Three. So I Had Read Maybe 150 Books By The Time I Hit 1st Grade. And I Already Knew That The Teachers Were Lying To Me.

The Flip Side Of The Coin Was That Even Good Programmers And Language Designers Tended To Do Terrible Extensions When They Were In The Heat Of Programming, Because Design Is Something That Is Best Done Slowly And Carefully.

A New Friend Is New Wine, When It Grows Old, You Will Enjoy Drinking It.

By The Time I Got To School, I Had Already Read A Couple Hundred Books. I Knew In The First Grade That They Were Lying To Me Because I Had Already Been Exposed To Other Points Of View. 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, So It Was A Battle. Of Course I Would Pipe Up With My Five-year-old Voice.