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

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.

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.

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.