I thought Gingrich was quite impressive. He seems to have a good idea about how to solve a serious problem.

We invest very heavily in improving the code quality so we reduce the number of bugs the verification teams find, as opposed to relying on the verification team to find bugs for us.

We realize that we can't be perfect. The chips today are large and complex and have a lot of complex interactions on chip. They get used in many many different ways by many different customers and in ways that we as the chip provider never imagined when we first produced the chip.

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

Sometimes you can be with someone that you love, but you know it's not healthy for you. You stay with them because you can't stand the thought of them being with someone else. It kills you.

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.