I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.