As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

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.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

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

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

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

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.