"Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles."

“In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.”

“The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be implemented is approval by the House of Commons followed by a referendum of the people of Britain. There is no question of implementing it by the back door.”

“A hand cannot write on itself.”

“Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.”

“Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.”

“And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.”

“I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.”

“I'm too much of a control freak.”

Source : "What went right?". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2001.