“The best way to stimulate the economy is to give money to the poor. They will spend it. Don’t give it to guys like me.

If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration. For everyone else, if it’s not your game, participate in total diversification. If you try to be just a little bit smart, spending an hour a week investing, you’re liable to be really dumb.

Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.

One of your most important jobs in life will be raising your children. They will learn more from you than they will in graduate school.

Many women have tough situations. I’ve not seen many males having to make tough choices. In my own adult life I did virtually no social functions or meetings that I didn’t want to do. I never had to make a choice between professional and personal.

“The board is a mirror of the mind of the players as the moments pass. When a master studies the record of a game he can tell at what point greed overtook the pupil, when he became tired, when he fell into stupidity, and when the maid came by with tea.

“This is my kind of social software. You want to “friend me”? Send me a patch. Fork my repo.

“If someone was willing to hand you all of Google in return for paying them the next 10 years of its cash flow, would you do that? I would, for sure.

“The people who think that pure languages let you automagically parallelise all your code are usually the same people who think they give you built-in memoization for free, and they’re both equally wrong.

“I have known more people whose lives have been ruined by getting a Ph.D. in Physics than by drugs.

“Friends don’t let friends commit centralized.

“In order to attract more eaters, an all-you-can-eat restaurant added ingredients to the salad bar, hoping to make it a better value and more diverse. Already confronted by too many choices, customers would shrink back to the standard salad they knew how to make. The result: customers self-reinforced their notion that the place was only about a single dish — whatever they ate the most.

“Lately my kids have been very interested in programming, and I’ve found that Python doesn’t come as easily to 6-11 year olds as it does to adult programmers.

“I avoid such routine questions as “What do you like to do outside of work?” or worse, “Tell me about your greatest failure.” It’s better to ask a candidate to solve tough problems and engage in other exercises that will help you understand their thought process.