As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

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.

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

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.