I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.

If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.

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

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

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

Don’t complain; just work harder.