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Montessori taught me the joy of discovery. It showed you can become interested in pretty complex theories, like Pythagorean theory, say, by playing with blocks. It’s all about learning on your terms, rather than a teacher explaining stuff to you. SimCity comes right out of Montessori — if you give people this model for building cities, they will abstract from it principles of urban design.

N’élevons pas nos enfants pour le monde d’aujourd’hui. Ce monde n’existera plus lorsqu’ils seront grands. Et rien ne nous permet de savoir quel monde sera le leur : alors, apprenons-leur à s’adapter.

La perfection, ce n’est pas quand il n’y a plus rien à ajouter mais plus rien à supprimer.

Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, "This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it ? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it !" This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it’s still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it ; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.

La logique de SPIP n’est pas « compliquée » : elle est contraignante, en ce qu’elle tente d’orienter l’utilisateur. Ce qui est très différent.

Labs are here to make experiments, things that don’t seem ordinary or even reasonable, labs are here to pave the future, not do what all others are doing too.

La théorie, c’est quand on sait tout et que rien ne fonctionne.
La pratique, c’est quand tout fonctionne et que personne ne sait pourquoi.

The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It’s what he does in response to his mistakes.

A man always buys something for two reasons: a good reason, and the real reason.

The application itself is not a goal at all, it’s an obstacle between the user and their goal.