Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.

Even in some of our vaccine areas, like an AIDS vaccine, things have taken longer than we expected, but we have the pipeline of tools. The biological information that we have that gives us insights is fantastic.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.