Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, o….

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology,….

Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers..

Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll ….

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use..

With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag..

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute thei….

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal..

One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while s….

In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't ….

I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team..

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot..

Give and ye shall receive..

When you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good..

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named param….

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to….

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want..

The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And the size of hard drives is getting so big, and ….

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more ….

The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way..

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.