"Almost everyone will do almost anything
to maintain almost any kind of relationship."
[A later example is sermon of July 16, 2006]


"The thing with fear and greed is that they are always useful tactics
in human society."



"The purpose and function of mathematics is to be absolutely certain
of things you can't possibly know at all."

"One advantage of teaching geometry as geometry is the inapplicability
of calculators." (Geometry is a non-calculational approach.) [2016]



https://pivotrock.net/Opera_perfecta/didactica/ApplicationDevelopment.html
2005

	"Whatever your user is complaining about isn't what's really bothering
	her." [originally circa 1990]

	"Seek elegance. Elegance is beauty as a result of choice."

	"There are different ways of doing nothing."



"I can't automate a process that doesn't exist."


"Variety is the spice of programming. And programming is life." [1978]


"The beauty of the English language lies in its glorious ambiguity."
	Sometimes in a variant form such as "The glory of the English
	language lies in its wonderous ambiguity."
	For example see Actual Reality for 2012 (arg.20120515.1021.html).


"An artist should not comment on his own work."
- or -
"An artist should not comment on his own work
unless he is Jorge Luis Borges."


Teaching Johnny To Think
Rule 1: Telling Johnny, "Think! Think!" isn't good enough.
Rule 2: Recognize the difference between Right and Left.
Rule 3: Find as many relationships as possible.
Rule 4: Learn to be dissatisfied. There is always another way to look at it.


"We should teach phonics in school, but we ALSO need to teach English."



"All reforms claim to recover the original, one way or another."


"I have the right to exist and to be the best person I can."
"You have the right to exist and to be the best person you can."
"Billy Bross has the right to exist and to be the best person he can."
"This tree has the right to exist and to be the best tree it can."
[Late 1980s]


All the technology would work great if real people were living lives
as dull and narrow as the data on which expansive conclusions are
based.
[Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:23 +0000]


The trope of all holidays in the US is how we owe our freedom to
the brave warriors who killed and died to protect our oil and
banana companies from the horror of foreign sovereignty.
[To: rwbeck@telus.net; Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 11:30]


We own the mathematics; the mathematics doesn't own us.
[March 2019 in the presentation on Space Structures]