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

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.

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

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

Give and ye shall receive.

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