This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

It's just that the chaos has changed shape. The giraffe and the bear have traded hats, and the bear's switched scarves with the zebra.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

I don't know nothing about nothing.

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.