You can always change you plan, but only if you have one.

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet.

It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.

I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids — more than anything else — need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't have to be alive for that to happen.

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.