I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

I have an ego the size of a small planet.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.