If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.

I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single rug for essentially political reasons, and that the identification of HIV as the sole pathogen is likely to go down as one of the most colossal blunders in the history of medicine.

That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.