Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

Write even when the world is chaotic.

There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.