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.

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

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

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

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

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