There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a million words.

More than a billion people have downloaded Google Earth. More than a billion people use Google Maps. They are very comfortable tools for people to explore the planet in high resolution.

I feel very fortunate to have been sort of a tiny instigator, using technology for good.

I'm basically a computer science nerd.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

Primary consciousness is a kind of ‘remembered present’…

Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.

Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.