I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.

We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole 'Baroque Cycle' and 'Cryptonomicon.'

I'd always loved technology. It's something I always messed around with in computer labs at school. So I glommed onto it very early as way to differentiate myself in business.