If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

until you got ice cream spilled on you, you’re not doing field work

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

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.

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

We've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities.