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 am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

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

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.

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

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

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