That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.