If one has the urge to write down a complete thought, a handsome notebook gives it more class. Even a scrap of paper and a stub of a pencil are more preferable for philosophizing than typing the same words down, since writing a word out, letter by letter, is a more self-conscious process and one more likely to inspire further revisions and elaborations of that thought.

Perhaps the best developer interview I have ever read. Deliciously geeky.

If you like Markdown, then @ttscoff's fork, nvALT is highly recommended: