Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.
With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.
People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.