So when I found BASIC I was really excited; I started to doing different projects, and middle school I started writing BASIC, and I made this game for chemistry class, and that was my project for the science fair. I thought, I want to write a computer program, and that's computer science--that counts as a science fair project. And [the teachers] were like, uh, what's your hypothesis?

Yeah, I remember those--I hated, you know, having the--

Yeah, that was like the most annoying thing, and they basically said that you shouldn't create some cool software--they were kind of discouraging me from it. So what I did was I made a quiz game, and my hypothesis was that people would like the game (maybe I had a legitimate hypothesis. I forget.)

But after my short stint with BASIC I started programming in C and then Java and Perl. Perl is my favorite language because the syntax seems natural to me. It correlates with the way my brain works.

What do you see as the biggest inspiration in your work with Wrong Planet?