We had been through so much, infertility and chemicals and treatments . . . and that was very emotional for my wife.

We had the nursery all laid out. I had this little girl in my heart.

How well we perform in the wholesale arena will be a factor in our rate stability.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.