Sid Meier

Dinosaurs was a cool idea, but we just couldn't find a way to make it really fun. We've got a bunch of great game ideas that we want to bring to life over the next several years.

We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others.

We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a turn-based game that lasts a long time, like Civilization.

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.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.