- My favorite conductor is Christopher Hogwood, the founder and director of the Academy of Ancient Music, playing on period instruments.
- My favourite pianists are Glenn Gould and Zoltán Kocsis.
- My favourite violinists are Simon Standage, Itzhak Perlman and David Oistrakh.
- My favorite writer is Stanislaw Lem, the author of the book Summa Technologiae, and of the novel Solaris.
- My favorite chess program is Crafty, which is open source. I like the style of Péter Lékó best.