Code-Switching

Code-Switching is a lens. Nothing in the world changes when you pick it up, but quite a lot becomes visible.

What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.

In every examination hall there are two kinds of silence: the silence of those who prepared, and the silence of those who are preparing excuses. The room can hear the difference.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. That is all. A small tool, honestly kept, beats a large one admired.