I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.

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.

On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.

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

When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.