I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.

So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous.

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

Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this.