I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.