We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

Don't let complexity stop you.

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.