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

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.

If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.

I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to fight poverty and hunger on Earth. But, look, I'm a scientist who sees inspiration as the ultimate tool for doing good. When you use money to fight poverty, it can be of great value, but too often, you're working at the margins. When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved. Give yourself permission to dream.

Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

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.

When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.