Data is ideology's headwind. - Paul Graham

I suspect few housing projects in the US were designed by architects who expected to live in them. You see the same thing in programming languages. C, Lisp, and Smalltalk were created for their own designers to use. Cobol, Ada, and Javawere created for other people to use. If you think you’re designing
something for idiots, odds are you’re not designing something good, even for idiots.

Prediction: Because the quality of abstract art is (ahem) hard to judge, it will be a lot easier to revise the history of that period to adjust the representation of great artists to suit present and future fashions.

Public school teachers are in much the same position as prison wardens.