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IF SLIDE PROJECTOR STOPS, TAKE FOUR STROKES ON BICYCLE PUMP, AND GO BACK TO YOUR LESSON.

— The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear

This was Seymour Papert’s essential argument: kids should program the computers, not the other way around.

— The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear

Whether Eliot knew it or not, Skinner felt, she was breaking not one but two sacred rules, rules this staunch behaviorist believed were bedrock-foundational principles of learning: Self-Pacing and Immediate Feedback.

— The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear

There will always be naysayers. They’re the same people who go from saying it’s impossible to saying it’s inevitable. —Elon Musk

— The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear

Children seem to be such remarkable learners on their own, but then they enter school. —Seymour Papert

— The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear

No one on the screen is who they are when you breathe their air.”

— Caliban's war by James S. A. Corey

“We’re all traitors now.” “Ha!” the old lady said. “Only if we lose.”

— Caliban's war by James S. A. Corey

The Martian Marine was like one of those cute little beach bunnies that someone had used editing software on and blown up to 150 percent normal size. The proportions, the black hair, the dark eyes, everything was the same. Only, giant. It short-circuited his neural wiring. The lizard living at the back of his brain kept jumping back and forth between Mate with it! and Flee from it!

— Caliban's war by James S. A. Corey

“I try not to shit where I eat,” Amos said, agreeing. “You live on a spaceship,” Holden said. “I don’t shit in the galley, though.” “Fair point.”

— Caliban's war by James S. A. Corey

She’d stopped looking tired a while ago and had moved on to whatever tired turns into when it became a lifestyle.

— Caliban's war by James S. A. Corey

“They’re all fucking men,” she said. “Excuse me?” Soren said. “The generals. They’re all fucking men.” “I thought Souther was the only—” “I don’t mean that they all fuck men. I mean they’re all men, the fuckers.

— Caliban's war by James S. A. Corey

In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures.

— On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

Investigate. Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate with others.

— On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder