Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people, too), I tend to try to not be too serious about it. And most of the time it means that I can take criticism constructively, and sometimes just change my opinion on the fly and laugh at myself over having turned on a dime.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.

I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.