Challenges are opportunities to demonstrate what our industry is capable of.

It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy. But the point is, it doesn't feel that way. It's made to feel, by magazines and other media outlets, that if you've got energy, a few bright ideas about technology, a garage -- you, too, could start a major thing.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return.

I'm not a victim, I'm a survivor.