"What really is the point of trying to teach anything to anybody?" This question seemed to provoke a murmur of sympathetic approval from up and down … - Douglas Adams

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that’s really the essence of programming. By the time you’ve sorted out a complicated idea
into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you’ve certainly learned something about it yourself. The teacher usually learns more than the pupil. Isn’t that true?

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.

Deep in the rain forest it was doing what it usually does in rain forests, which was raining: hence the name.