I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.

I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.

There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.