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.

A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.

Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.

We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.