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

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

Well, you can’t have just some of me, Jai,” I told her. “You appreciate the part of me that didn’t get angry because two ‘things’ we own got hurt. But the flip side of that is my belief that you don’t repair things if they still do what they’re supposed to do. The cars still work. Let’s just drive ’em.

A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

I've always admired people who are over-prepared.