I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.

I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Potholing is my idea of hell.

There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.

My best feature is my hair.