Why are we failing at math and science? Because it isn’t fun any more. When you put safety on the highest altar, what do you give up? When fear of lawsuits — not to mention fear of technology — drives product design, marketing, and public policy, you eliminate science at its roots, in the natural experimentation of kids who want to know how the world works.
O’Reilly on Math and Science
15 August 2008
27 March 2008
The set of stuff mathematicians like includes coffee, Rubik’s Cubes, saying things are trivial, being proud of the uselessness of one’s work, and the prefix “co-”. (So what is “ffee”? Okay, there’s another thing mathematicians like — bad jokes.)
God Plays Dice on Mathematicians