If you'd asked me as a kid how rich people became poor, I'd have said by spending all their money. That's how it happens in books and movies, because… - Paul Graham

We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.

If the far left are upset that having advanced math classes in public schools produces unequal outcomes, wait till they see how unequal the outcomes are without such classes.

It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.