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

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And the size of hard drives is getting so big, and they're so cheap, that pretty soon you'll have every song you own on one hard drive. The content distribution industry is going to evaporate.

Give and ye shall receive.

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

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

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'.