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.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

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