Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.

As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

I spend a lot of time reading.

'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.