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

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that.