"It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth."

"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."

"I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society."

"My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father."

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work."

"Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation."

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."