Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages.

Develop a good filing system.

I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.

Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.

The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.

Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that.

No job should, be beneath us. And if you can't(or won't) sort mail, Where is the proof that you can do anything?