I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually been some studies about that, that it's cathartic. If you go to QuakeCon and you walk by and you see the people there [and compare that to] a random cross section of a college campus, you're probably going to find a more peaceful crowd of people at the gaming convention. I think it’s at worst neutral and potentially positive.

It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!

Focused, hard work is the real key to success.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do. It costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.

An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?