Well the whole story is in the book but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history which has not been discovered before.

I read everything: fiction history science mathematics biography travel.

I love the simplicity the ingredients the culture the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

I mean the first 'Back to the Future' is kind of a perfect script I think in terms of handling time travel the best. It depends on your definition. To me that means it effectively uses it in the story.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro I would be thankful the rest of my life.