The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless