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.

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

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

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.

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

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.