What Lisp & Assembly instill

* Go is an easy game to learn; the rules fit on one page.

* Sculpting is easy: To make a statue of a lion, just start with a block of marble and take away all the bits that don't look like a lion.

* Here's a T-shirt with Maxwell's Equations. Now you understand classical electrodynamics.

* That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it.

I'm not saying that the essay isn't true. It is true. But learning the first-order approximation to truth is, at most, half the pleasure. Learning the details is the other half.