A slightly longer quote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f61KMw5zVhg

Brilliant!

However, it makes me kind of sad that PG goes to shit like this instead of working on Arc :( 100 year languages don't discover themselves...

His humility is redundant to the point of arrogance!

Yeah. It's easy for a Nobel winner to say he doesn't like honors.

He's was pretty consistent on this before that interview. My guess is that his success is due to the fact that he did it for the experience of doing it, not to achieve something.