I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in Hairspray.

I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the confederacy.

In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.

I am dreaming of entrepreneurs who earn by giving.

Now it's time for amasians... That's Asians doing something amazing.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.

On the field you gives it, you takes it, and yer doon't fookin' groomble!

In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.