"I'm not a big fan of asynchronicity just for its own sake - a lot of people push rhythmic variation so far that the basic pulse of the music gets lost (and the listener is confused)."

"If anything I probably gravitate to things with great melodies/harmonies, and interesting/syncopated beats."

"Ideally, a song should contain both elements of high melodic tension, and low melodic tension. No listener wants to sit through a totally high-energy 180 BPM non-stop 6-minute ride through synth mania unless they are already busy grooving madly on some dance floor in a smoky club somewhere. Also, unless your listener is on heavy sedation, he or she will not enjoy your sparse 18-minute ambient tune which consists of the same languid piano riff repeated over and over again."

"A song is not just a collection of melodic riffs, it is an emotional statement."

"One of the most common failings [when writing a drum track] is repetition. Nobody wants to hear that same stupid 16-line bass-snare pattern throughout the WHOLE song. Didn't your mother ever teach you that variety is the spice of life?"

"I'm starting to realize that touring really involves a lot of waiting around doing nothing."

"I feel that music is the art which can best express the emotions which flow within us. It conveys something bigger than it is."

"There's a big difference between playing shows for fun, and playing shows because you're in desperate need of the money."

"I think as a musician you really have to have a wide variety of tastes, or else you will unconsciously get into a rut."

"Unfortunately, as technology has improved, that which was 'underground' now heads towards obsolescence."

"I have a love for cheesy music. I don't want to list any bands and embarrass myself ;D"

"I think [Britney Spears] is a perfect example of an artificial construct -- someone with a decent voice and a very marketable image, that producers and business people turned into a pop star. Unfortunately, I think it took a toll on her, mentally, and I feel bad for the trouble that success has brought onto her. However, her music is pretty disposable, and she doesn't have the intelligence and cultural impact of someone like, say, Madonna."

"I'm glad there's OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet."

"Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?"

"The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges -- the single best book I have found on who we are and how we got here."

"The two premodern religions were ancestor worship and nature worship (see "The Ancient City" by Fustel de Coulanges). The two postmodern religions are evidently identitarianism and environmentalism. Is this a coincidence, or something deeper?"

"[Netscape will soon reduce Windows to] a poorly debugged set of device drivers."

"Software is eating the world"

"The process of planning is very valuable, for forcing you to think hard about what you are doing, but the actual plan that results from it is probably useless"

"I like the observation that Forth is an amplifier: a good programmer can write a great program; a bad programmer a terrible one. I feel no need to cater to bad programmers."

"It was a very academic environment. That became frustrating because there was no pressure for results. I thought commercial applications would be more rewarding. But since then I’ve met too many people who want to make a career out of a project instead of completing it. That’s life."

"When I went to business school, they said, "Focus on your shareholder, Marc. The business of business is business." That no longer applies. We have to erase that from our history books. The business of business is improving the state of the world."

"This idea that somebody put into our heads — that companies are somehow these kind of individuated units that are separate from society and don’t have to be paying attention to the communities they’re in — that is incorrect. We need to have a more enlightened view about the role of companies. This company is not somehow separate from everything else. Are we not all connected? Are we not all one? Isn’t that the point?"

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so that makes Google my best friend."

"The only constant in the technology industry is change."

"If you want to innovate at scale, you have to get really clear about your values. What do you really want in your company? What is really important to you?"

"No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up."

"It [Open Source] is a massively parallel drunkards' walk filtered by a Darwinian process."

"It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news "Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut." On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you."

"Praising companies for providing APIs to get your own data out is like praising auto companies for not filling your airbags with gravel."

"Programming with libxml2 is like the thrilling embrace of an exotic stranger."

"A good example is more irritating than a bad one."

"If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like."

"For better or worse, John McAfee is a name we all know. In true McAfee style, he is slowly but surely surreptitiously installing himself in the cryptocurrency community – usually in places where he’s probably not needed."

"John McAfee has never been convicted of rape and murder, but — crucially — not in the same way that you or I have never been convicted of rape or murder."

"I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well."

"I am not implying that our entire Government is corrupt. I am saying that it is corrupt to the point that no-one is untouched by it."

"Software production is unlike any other production that preceded it. No raw materials are required, no time is required, and no effort is required. You can make a million copies of a piece of software instantaneously for free. It's a totally new paradigm of production."

"Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd."

"Opinions need a willing ear."

"If you have the winning cards, why cheat?"

"Well, God is trisexual, number one. We all know that, I mean those of us who've taken heroin certainly know that. [...] Okay, male, female, and shemale. I mean, good God people, have you never watched fucking Pornhub!?"

"Hope is paltry food for living."

"Ignorance and confidence are constant companions."

"Disobedience is the vehicle of progress."

"History is sympathetic to its authors."