To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.

This proves that you're not infallible... Well, nobody is. Whoever thinks they're infallible is gonna really fall into a big hole some day. I've fallen into ho…

To think six years ahead - even two or three - in this business of making animated cartoon features, it takes calculated risk and much more than blind faith in…

This is the thing I'm going to be remembered for.

'Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.' (2…

[I]t does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.