In general, the best advice I can give people is to take criticism seriously, apologize for anything you have done wrong, and pull back from conflict. Of course, if you are right on a content matter, you should press forward in the interest of quality, but conflict often has a way of taking on a life of its own, unfortunately.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.