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'.

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.

Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's.

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

I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

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