I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.

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

We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.

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.

You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.