learning Quotes

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.