Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.

In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.

I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

Sex is like washing your face "just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

I don't know how to write love letters.

I will go for a simple girl who's completely in tune with me and who gets along with my family.

So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

The biggest thing is to create a product that consumers find useful. As more and more people like something, it becomes harder and harder to have a conspiracy theory about it.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

Grace then is gracethat is to say it is sovereign it is free it is sure it is unconditional and it is everlasting.

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.

Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If you're into electronics, get an Arduino.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Theres always one teacher you have a crush on. For me its my wifes aerobics instructor.