If you have a question, then find the answer.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.

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

Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.