Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans<br>goals<br>deliverables. And then block out all else.
I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.
To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99. 9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.
To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plansgoalsdeliverables. And then block out all else.
You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.
I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city.
The strongest inpression remaining with me after watching the wolves. . . was their friendliness towards each other.
I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is a composer, Paul Moravec, and a few years ago, Paul and I were at lunch, and I said to him, "you really have to write an opera. " So, he says very casually to me, "I'll do it if you write the libretto. " Well, little did I know that the within a couple of years we would end up getting a commission from the Santa Fe Opera to write an opera together, "The Letter," which turned out to be the most successful commissioned opera in the history of the Santa Fe Opera.