“A creator needs to acquire only 1000 true fans to make a living.

“Legacy code is code which has no automated tests.

“Collection of Rules” is a decent metaphor for programming languages, and some languages have more rules than others. But it is orthogonal to the metaphor of languages as tools.

“A Hacker is always trying new things, trying to stretch the limits of what’s possible or what exists. Once something is functional and successful, the hacker moves on to another hard problem.

“Among the founders of the Ghadar Party—founded in San Francisco in 1913 to liberate India from British Rule—was Prof. Har Dayal of Stanford University.

“In an ingenious bit of research in Germany, subjects were asked to play a video game that involved steering airplanes, but the joystick was programmed to react only after a brief delay. After playing a while, the players stopped being aware of the time lag. But when the scientists eliminated the delay, the subjects suddenly felt as though they were staring into the future. It was as though the airplanes were moving on their own before the subjects had directed them to do so.

“Arguments about cheating in sport revolve around conventions more than laws. It is not only a question of “was he breaking the rules?” but also “is that rule sacrosanct?” It is the unwritten constitution that exerts the stronger grip.

“Think about who I am. My father was Kenyan; I have close relatives in a small rural village in Kenya to this day; and I spent several years of my childhood living in Jakarta, Indonesia. Think about what it’s going to mean in many parts of the world—parts of the world that we really care about—when I show up as the President of the United States. I’ll be fundamentally changing the world’s perception of what the United States is all about.