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.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

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

I've always admired people who are over-prepared.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

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

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.