“I wouldn’t call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers.”

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal.

Due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make ‘big miracles’ happen.

No matter your position or place in life.

I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, ‘Flying Fingers,’ debuted.

Not just for me, but for everyone.

But I think it’s very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

We all love people who give credit to others for their success.

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection.

My family joke that I’m really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

Whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today’s girls.

Let’s abolish the term ‘childish’ because adults normally cause the largest problems.

Discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

But also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

Back in high school I told my dad, “I’m going to have a computer someday.” And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, “Well, I’ll live in an apartment.”

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

College just didn’t even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

I definitely have a piece of tape over my computer at home.