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Eventually, I want to finish my degree.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the Ph.D. in art history when I'm 50, or maybe divinity school. I like teaching, too.

I enjoy what I'm doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.

Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I have often regretted it, though you do need to choose the 'right' supervisor in the 'right' discipline - no easy task when you are totally inexperienced.

I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.