Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.