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We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.

If you can't access it, all the resources in the universe won't do you any good.