It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

When you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good.

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

Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'.

Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.

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.

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.