understanding Quotes

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

There is no unique picture of reality.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.