My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going,

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

It's old-fashioned storytelling. The importance is that belief that spring is around the corner.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.