Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.

Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early.

I didn't take very much part in activities on campus at that time.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.

America saw me as a projection of me that I always wanted. That's why I love going to America so much. I feel like I started off in America exactly how I wanted to start everywhere.

I'm good with getting older because I feel like, one day, I know I will love myself.

In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.

I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They've taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

I do think that exercise is important, not only to keep you in shape but also for your state of mind. However, I am not fanatical about it.

Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.

It was only when I saw films in my early 20s by Jane Campion, Mira Nair, Sally Potter and Kathryn Bigelow, I started to think, 'Oh, it's possible.' I dared to suggest that I wanted to train to be a film director.

That's what got me through 65 years of life - my belief in God and what He's done for us and what He will do for us.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

I used to see my dad and his brothers rhyming, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I'm like any other boy, always wanting to follow in his father's footsteps.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

If you present your dog to a veterinarian with the instruction to put him to sleep, you would normally mean something very different than you would upon taking your wife or husband to an anesthesiologist with the same words.

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

Running gets everything done, doesn't it? Covers it all.

In order to appreciate your successes you must first appreciate your struggles.

I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?

If its free its advice if you pay for it its counseling if you can use either one its a miracle.