"It was a trigger," said Mr. Connett.
"For political video games, September 11 was the trigger," says Frasca.
"Guys talk about retiring, but they have a very difficult time pulling the trigger," said Firefighter McCarthy.
Ms. Trigger says that programming is a necessary evil for women who want to succeed in technology.
"As someone once said, genetics loads the gun, and the environment pulls the trigger," said Dr. Judith E. Fradkin, of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
"You see all these changes going on around you and it's a trigger," said Jack Harrower, the second principal, who is married to Ms. Hochron.
"Basically, that scene was the trigger," said Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, the senior military adviser in charge of training Iraqi security forces.
"You don't pull someone out of a car with your finger on the trigger," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"That's the big trigger," said D. J. Haverkamp, who runs Bedford Bee Honeybee Service, a consulting firm that provides beekeeping services similar to a pool service.
The cyclone became a "mental trigger," said U Tin Maung Thann, the head of a research organization based in Yangon that provides policy advice to the president.
