Society and development
- freedom
- global growth and political reform
- global technology transfer
- computer mediated education
- open source
- international monetary policies
- convergence
- comparative advantage and trade
- globalization
- cultural diversity
- programming languages
- human languages
- tangible/visual programming tools

Economics
- international pricing parity
- efficiencies from liquidity
- imperfect information
- auction theory
- inflationary expectations
- human capital
- portfolio theory
- value attribution
- decision making under uncertainty
- financial market regulation
- simulation and forecasting theories

Interfaces
- between humans and machines
- between machines
- automated construction of hypertext and graphical -user interfaces
- contextual awareness

Machine learning
- conceptual inheritance and construction
- automated creation of classes and methods
- knowledge representation
- implication forecasting
- neural networks
- genetic algorithms
- machine perception
- mutating code
- agency formation and competition
- defining fitness
- agent population management

Computing architecture
- clusters
- thin-client
- distributed processing
- granular sharing & collaboration

Ironman
The Matrix
Fight Club
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Goodfellas
Wing Chun
Titan AE
Good Will Hunting
Buena Vista Social Club
Pirates of Silicon Valley
American Beauty
Enter the Dragon
Akira
Ninja Scroll
Buffalo '66
Seven Samurai
Casino

Santana - especially his old stuff
Pepe Romero
Jimi
Tribe Called Quest
Biggie
Tupac
Floyd
Paul Simon
Afro Cuban All Stars
Sinatra
Beatles
Tchaikovsky
Erykah Badu
Hooverphonic
Grateful Dead
Bret Mosley

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. -- Anne Tyler (1941 - )

Pursue your passions, venture where you have never ventured before, pace yourself, serve others and have lots of fun. -- Shirley M. Tilghman

In the 21st Century, scientists and engineers will continue to inform us regarding what we can do with our ever-expanding knowledge base, but it is our shared responsibility to decide what we should do. And deciding what we should do is the greatest responsibility we all bear as we move forward together. -- Harold T. Shapiro

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire (1694 - 177

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. -- Bertrand Russell, 1947 (1872 - 1970)

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. -- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. -- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks. -- Helmuth von Moltke (1800 - 1891)

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. -- George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)

If you don't risk anything you risk even more. -- Erica Jong

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. -- General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)

In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend. -- Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so. -- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. -- Sir Henry Taylor

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. -- Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 - 1969)

Lack of money is the root of all evil. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. -- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. -- William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)

The Daily Show
Colbert Report
The Office
The news (is that boring?)
UFC
This Old House
Ninja Warrior

Too many!!!

Married

Boston, MA

Tolerant

air, water, food, shelter, others

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