It's not yet ready to give out to the public. It's an embarrassing research prototype that barely works for our purposes.

An element of it is investment driven but our research has found that most of it is from incredibly wealthy people who have done their homework and have become incredibly sophisticated buyers in a short space of time.

A part of the interesting design of Fortress is our emphasis on using traditional mathematical notation whenever possible. It's our hope you don't need a proprietary IDE to prepare Fortress code. Right now you can use any ASCII editor to write Java.

We have some unusual strategies for achieving parallelism. The ordinary 'for' loop is parallel, and we're trying out the feel of writing programs in this style. We're also working on a more elaborate 'type' system that does more error checking than has been done in the past. Roughly speaking, we can say that something is not just an array but an array of numbers.

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

So if you, O subsequent ones, ever deign to look down at us from your summit of effortless superiority, remember that you have only scaled it on the back of our efforts. For it is thankless to grope in the dark and tempting to rest until the light of understanding shines upon us. But if we are led into this temptation, your kingdom will never come.