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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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