I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.