So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

I want people to know when I'm taking care of them I'll give it all that I've got.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Good design is good business.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.