Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

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'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.