You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand.

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.

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.