“Trademark rights are destructive to the cooperation and trust necessary for successful open source projects. An open source project has a large number of authors, but the trademark on it must belong to just one of those authors. US trademark law sucks because it doesn’t recognize legitimate community claim to partial ownership.

“Code is more clear if it is more testable.

“Although software people and library people belong to different tribes, we’re both guild navigators; when we integrate software services and information sources, we are folding information space.

“Using external libraries is awesome when it makes your work easier, but it’s much less impressive when it just circumvents ignorance.

“One often-talked-about event in the history of IRC is the gulf war. In early 1991 [3 years after the birth of IRC], live reports were available and more than 300 concurrent users were experienced for the first time.

“For me, the Crimean War is the “perfect” war. Started for obscure reasons, hopelessly murderous, and accomplishing nothing. Even the charge of the Light Brigade was a senseless exercise.

“If your life is [all] strategy you will be unhappy.

“You are not really diversified unless you own something you’re uncomfortable with.

A hedge is something you hold and hope you’re wrong.

“It is cities that compete, not countries.

“Negative stereotypes about aging can actually shorten your life. Research has found that memory studies can intimidate elderly subjects into performing poorly. They score higher on memory tests if they aren’t explicitly told that the study is about memory and aging. They score worse on memory tests after reading a pessimistic newspaper account about aging and memory than those who read a cheerful article about growing older.

Another factor: Social support makes both men and women less vulnerable to health problems. People over 60 who described themselves as lonely were particularly at risk.