Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.