Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

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.

Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.

I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.

I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less