"In 1994 an amazing thing happened. The phone rings and it is Professor Sheila Widnall of the Department of Aeronautic…"

"My job was to be a window on science for the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. I was the first person to be asked to b…"

"I did two big things. One was consciousness-raising in the Air Force about software. The one big report I wrote, at t…"

"The other was on software development. The military up to that point believed in, and could only imagine, a structure…"

"It was a rather unsettling experience to come back to Stanford. After playing a role on a big stage, all of a sudden …"

"So at the beginning of 2000, I retired. Since then I have been leading a wonderful life doing whatever I please. Now …"

"The great thing about being retired is not that you work less hard, but that what you do is inner-directed. The world…"

"When I was younger, I was too busy for history and not cognizant of the importance of it. As I got older and began to…"

"That convinced me to get very serious about archives, including my own. If you’re interested in discoveries and the h…"

"Our group, the Heuristic Programming Project, did path-breaking work in the large, unexplored wilderness of all the g…"