We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.