There Are Things That Aren't

Do Not Simplify. Do Not Worry About Failure. Failure Is A Badge Of Honour. It Means You Risked Failure.

If I Were Doing Somebody Else's Script Or I Adapted A Book By Philip Roth, On Set There Could Be A Million Different Interpretations Of The Material And People Could Argue With Me. Certainly On Synecdoche, New York We Had Discussions And Arguments, But I Felt Like I Had Authority Because I'm A Writer.

When I'm Writing A Script, Before I Can Write Dialogue Or Anything, I Have Two Or Three Hundred Pages Of Notes, Which Takes Me A Year. So, It's Not Like "what Happens Next." I've Got Things That I'm Thinking About But I Don't Settle On Them. And If I Try To Write Dialogue Before Then, I Can't. It's Just Garbage.

I Like Titles That Are A Little Difficult, Because It's Kind Of Counterintuitive.

Humans Are Incapable Of Securely Storing High-quality Cryptographic Keys, And They Have Unacceptable Speed And Accuracy When Performing Cryptographic Operations. (they Are Also Large, Expensive To Maintain, Difficult To Manage, And They Pollute The Environment. It Is Astonishing That These Devices Continue To Be Manufactured And Deployed. But They Are Sufficiently Pervasive That We Must Design Our Protocols Around Their Limitations.)