Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

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

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.