The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.
We need to move from a take-make-waste economy to one that is regenerative by design.
The past is a shadow that follows us, always present, always haunting.
A quarry manager needs the precision of an engineer and the vision of a poet.