I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.

The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are the books that you come to understand more deeply with time, with age and with rereading.

People tell me I have the best job in the world, which is true, but I also work with some of the best people in the world.

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.