Money is simply not a medium in which I can work. I am not a native speaker; my accent betrays my igorance. I put on my suit jacket and go to an office in midtown and, if I am hired, I will tell the story of a software application, a story in words and documents that will, in turn, be used as a kind of lexicon for those who speak the language of millions of dollars. But the whole time I'm like the translator in the Chinese room, receiving the signals and sending them out again, with only a bare understanding of what I'm saying.

Paul Ford ist doch ein Amish, after all.