Bill Budge

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

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.

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

The premise of 'Secret Coders' is reminiscent of 'Harry Potter.' An intrepid band of tweens stumbles upon a secret school, only instead of teaching magic, the school teaches coding.

After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.