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.

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

Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

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

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.

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

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