I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular never-to-be-repeated experience.

As a rule software systems do not work well until they have been used and have failed repeatedly in real applications.

I discovered that the horse is life itself a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability of life's generosity and beauty a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.