I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.'

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.

Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain quickly speckled the windscreen. He turned on the wipers again, but they still refused to feel that the exercise was worthwhile, and scraped and squeaked in protest.