Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.

When in doubt, use brute force.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.