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A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

What's funny is that an old Web site of mine just had one fake bio, and everyone went crazy for it. So when I made the new Web site, I thought, 'I just need to make this one even more absurd.'

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

If it weren't for Moore's law changing the playing field continuously, I would have been long gone. The rapid pace of hardware evolution still keeps things fresh for me.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

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.'

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

What happens off-screen definitely informs your performance on screen.