If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

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.

I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.