This is the best time ever to make something. None of the greatest, coolest creations 20 years from now have been invented yet. You are not late. - Kevin Kelly

As Marshall McLuhan observed, the first version of a new medium imitates the medium it replaces. The first commercial computers employed the metaphor of the office. Our screens had a “desktop” and “folders” and “files.” They were hierarchically ordered, like much of the industrial age that the computer was overthrowing.

When someone tells you what ticks them off, they are telling you what makes them tick.

Learning probability and statistics is far more useful than learning algebra and calculus.