I don’t suffer from an abundance of politeness.
I know you’re smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn’t enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.
I’m dying, and I’m having fun.
If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity.
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.
Don’t complain; just work harder.
I’ve always admired people who are over-prepared.
He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.
If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.
Kids need to know their parents love them. Their parents don’t need to be alive for that to happen.
When you’re frustrated with people, when they’ve made you angry, it just may be because you haven’t given them enough time.
Take Time Out. It’s not a real vacation if you’re reading email or calling in for messages.
If nobody ever worried about what was in other people’s heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.
The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.
People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.
We can’t change it. We have to decide how we’ll respond.
Just because you’re in the driver’s seat, doesn’t mean you have to run people over.
It’s a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.
It’s interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.
Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded.