Code
This is the hardest of the three because it is about the beauty of abstraction. It’s difficult to pin down that allure with words. What is intrinsically appealing is that it doesn’t need words, that it eludes simple description, even though it is so simple.
Eight Feet Under
I know there are a lot of pilots who “always wanted to fly.” One of my favorite aviation quotations (there are a pile of them out there) is from Gary Powers, the pilot of the U2 spy plane shot down over Russia. Describing his first flight to his father he said, “Dad, I left my [...]