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 a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

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

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 fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

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

The Internet's a big enough place for everybody to be happy.

The crisis of democracy in the West is not the result of falling in love with another system. In Europe and America people who are disillusioned with democracy do not dream about the Chinese model or any other form of authoritarian rule. They do not dream about government that controls Internet and puts in prison those daring to disagree.

We saw for a time that digital currencies were radioactive to banks, but that's not the case anymore.

We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.