• On a small aside. I want to thank you for all the work you have done over the years, firstly to inspire people like myself to see the technical side of ceramics as such a beautiful side of the art and not just a finished result that was lucky. And on that note with how much I read your blog, waiting for daily posts, reading all the old articles again and again, I see your mugs with the wheat grass on them all time, and was wondering if you ever put them up for sale. It's been an icon of my learning and would love to have one of the infamous mugs themselves.

• Tony, you are wonderful!

• I am eternally indebted to you for all that you have done to advance the technical abilities of non-industrial pottery! I love using Insight.

• First, I want to thank you for all the help we got from Digital Fire; thank you very much for this huge work and to share it like that.

• You have such a brilliant analytical mind, able to find solutions to many ceramic problems. You have accomplished so much in your life, helping us potters understand what we are doing. I cannot thank you enough for your vast ceramic reference library online. I think you are a national treasure.