“I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And youdon't quit a career.”

“I have the mind to do so many fields, careers, jobs, and hobbies; but I have the heart to do few fields of work, careers, jobs, and hobbies”

“After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.”

“What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!”

“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 lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don't know what it is yet.”