The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

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

Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids — more than anything else — need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't have to be alive for that to happen.