And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.

We're experimenting with new ideas we can put into it, which makes it hard for me to say exactly when we will be done with them.

It's gotten to the point now where I surf the fan sites everyday and download cool things the fans have created, which is really ironic in a way!

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!

There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political.

Actually, many years ago, we had a company-wide vote for our informal company-wide mascot, and the choices came down to the Boston tree fern, beef tape worm and a llama. And somehow the llama won the vote!

In some sense that fear of not dropping the ball can really hurt you, in terms of not stretching and kind of going off in interesting new directions.