“I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years t...” — Ken Thompson Quote

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

I was working in a day job in marketing but I had my sights on doing an open-mic night.

You should never quit your day job.

I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.