"There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software."
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"A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal."
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"It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded."
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"Stupidity is the only natural capital offense."
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"Don't worry about how things are. Watch where they are headed."
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"I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer."
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"All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code."
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"My programming language was solder."
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"Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied."
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"I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself."
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