Just an aside, not arguing... You don't necessarily need to hire someone like Anders to pick their brain. A lot of people who are not huge in the zeitgeist (a

Just an aside, not arguing... You don't necessarily need to hire someone like Anders to pick their brain. A lot of people who are not huge in the zeitgeist (and also are not assholes) are surprisingly reachable. Funnily enough, I've chatted with Anders about programming language design -- I got the impression he thought my ideas were terrible. For a while, you could just email Noam Chomsky and he would respond.