If You Stare At Someone Long Enough,

It Is A Mistake To Let Aesthetics Drive Your Rational Decision Making.

If You've Never Programmed A Computer, You Should. There's Nothing Like It In The Whole World. When You Program A Computer, It Does Exactly What You Tell It To Do. It's Like Designing A Machine — Any Machine, Like A Car, Like A Faucet, Like A Gas-hinge For A Door — Using Math And Instructions. It's Awesome In The Truest Sense: It Can Fill You With Awe.

Stories Are Propaganda, Virii That Slide Past Your Critical Immune System And Insert Themselves Directly Into Your Emotions.

Novels For Me Are How I Find Out What's Going On In My Own Head. And So That's A Really Useful And Indeed Critical Thing To Do When You Do As Many Of These Other Things As I Do.

Stop In The Middle Of A Sentence, Leaving A Rough Edge For You To Start From The Nest Day - That Way, You Can Write Three Or Five Words Without Being “creative” And Before You Know It, You're Writing.