Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

Complaining does not work as a strategy.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that.

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

Sometimes, all you have to do is ask.