I remember Adam Green.  When dBase was still king of the hill and SQL was just a glimmer in people's eyes, Adam and I talked about working together to build a smart  interactive SQL editor/IDE.  Nothing came of it and I lost track of him since.  I wish I could be scholarly like him instead of pounding on my keyboard and yacking on the phone all day to make a living.  Being a VC would be even better although more tiring, but empty trees (re: VC tree joke) in Sand Hill makes the transition near impossible.

BTW, totally by coincidence, my old friend Adam Green, the dBASE guru, and CTO at Andover, retired rich from the software industry, is now taking classes at Harvard to learn how be scholarly about the history of science. His aim is to be the first software historian. Adam is uniquely qualified to do that. He was doing his work, reading the ancient scientists, on his own, when people asked what he's doing, he'd tell them and they would look at him weirdly. Now he says he's studying the same stuff at Harvard and people's eyes bug out. I've noticed the same thing. Synchronicity. [Scripting News]