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.

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

A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

Never make a decision until you have to.

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

There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.