Nut shrugged. "Set had always been Set, for better or worse. But he is still part of our family. It is difficult to lose any member of your family. . . is it not?
I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.
Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.
Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.
After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.
Damn flowers. Nice kids, the ones who skated out and gave us them. But the flowers, the stem fell off. I stepped right on it and was on my ass in a flash. Must have looked good, huh? A hundred million guys watching all around the world, brass bands playing, the Russian cats in the stands, and here I am dumped on the ice. So I waved to the folks back home inthe Soo, a wave from the dummy with egg on his face.