Bill Budge

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.