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" Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world. "

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" The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid. "

" Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do... those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That's a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis. "

" The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment. "

" Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't live near a train track, it's hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car. "

" Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems. "

" Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing. "

" When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop their sense of self-reliance, their ability to assess and mitigate risk, and their sense of accomplishment. "

" I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of. "

" The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope. "

" Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves. "

" Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns. "