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

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.

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.

Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.