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ON DENISE CARUSO: Denise Caruso has a really good insight into some of the trends that are going to shape the development of the whole digital revolution. She was one of the individuals who saw the codescope in the Da Vinci title as being something really different, as really defining on the electronic canvas, as I like to call it.

ON BILL GATES: I have to say one thing about Bill Gates that had a strong influence on why I went to work for him, and that is I've never met anyone who is as open to new ideas. He is very interested in a wide range of fields, and I find that fascinating. Most people who get into a position of power, as Bill certainly has, start believing their own press, and they stop learning. Their antenna stops being up. Bill doesn't do that. He's very interested in learning and growing and finding out. He's extremely curious, and I find that to be a wonderful quality. I love to work for him.

ON JARON LANIER: It's quite interesting-when professional licensing clients use the Corbis archive over the Internet today, as 50 companies are on a beta basis-they have a choice of either we'll do the searching or they'll do the searching. And as the Corbis library grows, there are going to increasingly be people who want to have assistance in that regard; they'll want agents. Jaron wrote a very interesting article that I happen to agree with about the need for a guide - he called them bicyclers-bicycle messengers in cyberspace. I'd like to meet him.

ON NATHAN MYHRVOLD: I don't know Nathan Myhrvold well, except by reputation. He also, as you may not be aware, is quite an accomplished photographer. Calls himself an amateur, but the people that I know that know him say that he's really better than that. As a result of that, our paths have crossed a few times in the photographic community, but I really don't know him well, except to know that he has been and continues to be one of the very important individuals at Microsoft.

ON BOB STEIN: The work that Voyager has done is amazing and Bob Stein was at the center of that. It's a shame that they weren't able to distribute their products better and therefore have a stronger business model that would have moved Voyager a lot further today than they are.

ON LINDA STONE: Linda Stone I knew at Apple, and I've continued to keep contact with her at Microsoft-a really quite amazing lady. She's a wonderful networker, and she has a wonderful sense of the number of trends that are going on in the community, and if there's anyone who can make reality out of avatars, Linda probably can.

ON RICHARD WURMAN: Richard Wurman's fascinating. I've been to two TED's, I'll go to the next one. He's been nice enough to ask me and also Curtis Wong who worked for Bob Stein at Voyager for a number of years and now works at Corbis, to speak there. Richard has a wonderful understanding of the way that information should be and can be organized. We've had some great conversations I've had with him and he's had with other people at Corbis about that, and since that is the context-the cataloguing of pictures at Corbis is the context, there's a really very strong connection between the way we think.


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