Dialectic

"Sam Walton had a great line in his biography. He's like, 'Listen, I didn't push my kids too hard cuz I understood that I was a fairly overactive fellow.'"

"There's a writer I love, Benjamin Labatut, who wrote a book called When We Cease to Understand the World."

"He's talking about The Timeless Way of Building and A Pattern Language."

"He's talking about The Timeless Way of Building and A Pattern Language."

"Then there are other things, like I watched Casablanca for the first time recently, and there wasn't much effort required."

"In the film You've Got Mail, Joe—Tom Hanks's character—is telling Meg Ryan's character... 'Kathleen, that it isn't personal.'"