Things I have learned from Michael

• Learn greedily.
• Enjoy your errors: they’re opportunities to broaden your thinking.
• Give credit generously, wherever it’s due.
• A doctorate in ancient Germanic literature is a fine basis for a career in XML.
• Making a genius laugh is as rewarding as making a genius think.
• No word is well enough defined that you cannot spend another day debating its meaning.
• Gentleness makes scholarly rigour beautiful.
• For someone to change your mind is a gift; thank them for it.
• No knowledge is useless, and no person lacks knowledge.
• Hermione was a Ravenclaw.
• If you want to teach, you must learn to listen.
• Intellectual disagreements are not personal disputes.
• Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly.
• A man raised with many siblings will let you steal ice cream from his plate.
• There is strength in courtesy.
• To make a home in the hearts of others is a form of immortality.

Olórin, namárië.

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