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What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that__ been done by others before us. I didn__ invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and to add something to the flow. It__ about trying to express something in the only way that most of us know how__ecause we can__ write Bob Dylan songs or Tom Stoppard plays. We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That__ what has driven me._-__t__ strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. So I really want to believe that something survives, that maybe your consciousness endures He fell silent for a very long time. __ut on the other hand, perhaps it__ like an on-off switch,_ he said. __lick! And you__e gone.__hen he paused again and smiled slightly. __aybe that__ why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.