“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
“Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?”
“He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.”
“That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.”
“If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.”
“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”