“Don't try to be different, that's not you, but just try to be yourself & that will make all the difference.”

“Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.”

“Ask yourself what you like to think about. Problems associated with your technical specialty? Would you be unhappy making a career shift into a new area? Do you see yourself, in the future, as more of an individual contributor or a manager?If you do think you want to specialize, here is the acid test: Your skills and talents are sufficiently deep and leading-edge for you to be able to complete a sentence that sounds something like this: "I am uniquely qualified for this because I am one of a handful of people who have the depth of knowledge to…”

“Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.”

“Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable”

“All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.”

“Life is what you make it. Always has been. Always will be.”