"I’m made proud over and over again by the achievements of my students and postdocs. I’ve been very fortunate to work with a phenomenal group of individuals, both technically and personally. Nothing makes me happier than seeing each succeed in his or her own way, and to think that I played some small role in it."

"It is assumed in this work that cognitive processes are carried out in two distinct ‘levels’ with qualitatively different mechanisms. Each level encodes a fairly complete set of knowledge for its processing, and the coverage of the two sets of knowledge encoded by the two levels overlaps substantially."

"An atmosphere of suspicion could chill important international research partnerships and unfairly target individuals based on their ethnicity, educational history or national origin."

"believe my duty as a professor is to mentor students and other young scientists to get excited to learn and to contribute to the very long conversation exploring hard questions in computer science."

"Toward developing a more fine-grained and more comprehensive framework, I will adopt the more generic but less loaded terms of implicit and explicit processes (Reber, 1989, Sun, 2002) and present a more nuanced view of these processes, centered on a computational “cognitive architecture”."

"What we need is not paranoia, but a well-policed and secure arena for international collaboration. This means clear guidelines for research partnerships, robust safeguards against unauthorized technology transfer, and a culture of transparency and ethical conduct in AI research."

"On the contrary, these collaborations serve as an important channel for sharing US culture and values, especially when rooted in academic research and education. They also help build strong relationships between the US and the UAE where we’ve received enthusiastic support from many US diplomats, government officials, and legislators for the work we are doing."

"Many of the affiliations and co-appearances with people of Chinese background during our professional activities, as cited in research papers or advisory capacities—like mine or those of scholars from Oxford and MIT—are standard among top global academics."

"The distinction between “intuitive” and “reflective” thinking has been, arguably, one of the most important distinctions in cognitive science. There are currently many dual-process theories (two-system views) out there."

"Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary."

"Scheme programming language demonstrates that a very small number of rules for forming expressions, with few restrictions on how they are composed, suffice to form a practical and efficient programming language that is flexible enough to support most of the major programming paradigms in use today."

"I have been the PhD thesis supervisor of almost 50 wonderful graduate students. Many of them have become fine teachers. And ideas from my books have influenced some high-school curricula."

"It thus seems necessary that we come up with more nuanced and more detailed characterizations of the two systems (the two types of processes) in order to avoid painting the picture in too broad strokes."

"The thing that stands out in my mind is the professor showing us pictures of various shapes such as triangles and squares, pointing out how easy it was for us to distinguish them, but then asserting that nobody knew how to write a computer program to do so (to date myself, this must have been the mid ’80s). I had already started programming computers, but this got me interested in the concept of modeling intelligence with computers."

"The essential idea is best captured by the introductory paragraph of the foreword to the IEEE Standard for the Scheme Programming Language:"

"I am most proud of the fact that my work has contributed to the education (not training) of many students, at all levels. Through my classes, I have influenced the thinking styles of thousands of undergraduates."

"I do not think that the impact of Scheme has sunk into the culture of computing even now. People make elaborate languages that provide shortcuts and “conveniences” that tend to hide the ideas in their programs, rather than expose them."

"I am quite proud to have started a line of work now pursued by many – including investors: machine learning applied to security problems."

"One point I considered was how much I make from each sale. Even though I drastically cut the list price, I actually make more per book than I did when the book was sold through the publisher. I did a lot of research into which self-publishing house to use to find one where the royalty model fit my sales model."

"The first thing to do is to self-educate. Second, consider hiring a lawyer. I did, but things went so smoothly that I didn’t need one. Third, ask for your rights back. I had expected [McGraw-Hill] to ask for many thousands for the rights based on my calculations of their profits for the next five years."

"When The Mechanical Design Process was first introduced in 1992, I insisted that it be priced at less than $50. I felt this was a fair price for a university text on the topic. McGraw-Hill, the publisher, agreed and released it at $49. Over the years, McGraw-Hill steadily raised the price over my protests."

"we can harness collective intelligence while maintaining rigorous security and ethical standards. The university champions the values and principles of the Western academic tradition as seen in the most advanced universities, and we hold faculty and students to the highest standards of conduct, transparency, and policy compliance."

"I always knew that it was possible to buy back rights. When I decided to request the rights back, I did a lot of online reading to be sure I understood the ins and outs."

"With my book, most sales are through university book stores with some coming through online sales. I found a self-publisher who would give me the most for these outlets (Ingram Spark). I do not expect any sales through brick and mortar book stores."

"I was always fascinated by the simple problem that you have a quest for work sitting and waiting in one place and a resource capable and willing to serve it is idling in another place. How do you bring them together? It turns out it’s an unsolvable problem so I can work for 40 more years."

"What I’m doing today is anchored in my PhD work in the late 1970s. I always joke that I’ve been working on the same problem for over 40 years and it’s still not done! My thesis was on load balancing and distributed systems."

"But the personal angle is that we always saw what we are doing as expanding from the desktop to the world. And that’s how we went from the campus to nation-wide and beyond."

"I think there are more algorithms down that road — very interesting ones — but it will probably be difficult to come up with them."

"One very, very interesting thing about quantum computation is that it touches so many different fields in mathematics"

"There are two Nobel Prize discoveries whose computation system was powered by HTCondor––the Higgs Boson in 2012 and then recently detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO collaboration. So I am always joking, I’m looking for the triple crown. But I can’t say that they’re more important or challenging than other works of science powered by HTCondor."

"I think of this as maybe similar to the fact that the complex numbers are an algebraic closure of the real numbers. And quite similarly again, the problems in the quantum model often have richer connections between them; they somehow ring ‘right,’ mathematically."

"Microbial communities are like intricate ecosystems, with each member playing a unique role."

"Through the study of microbes, we can unlock the secrets of life itself."

"Microbes are the true masters of adaptation, constantly evolving to overcome challenges."

"The ability of microbes to adapt and evolve is unparalleled in the natural world."

"Microbes provide the foundation for all life on Earth."

"By studying microbes, we can gain insights into our own biological processes and potentially unlock new therapeutic approaches."

"From the most remote landscapes to the depths of the ocean, microbes are everywhere."

"We must recognize the interconnectedness of all living things if we are to truly understand life."

"Microbes are the unsung heroes of life on Earth."

"The biodiversity of microbes far exceeds that of all other organisms combined."

"Microbes have been shaping the course of evolution since the beginning of life."

"Microbes don't just cause diseases, they also play critical roles in the health of our planet."

"Microbes are the ultimate survivors, capable of thriving in some of the most extreme environments on Earth."

"Microbiology is a field where curiosity meets application, paving the way for meaningful scientific advancements."

"From the tiniest single-celled organisms to complex microbial communities, microbes hold immense scientific value and hold the secrets to the origins of life."

"Imprecise language and buzzwords govern the computing ecosystem. I coined the term HTC in the mid-nineties in order to differentiate it from traditional High Performance Computing, known to many as supercomputers."

"The purpose of science is to develop a shared understanding of the natural world."

"We now share HTC capabilities across more than 125 institutions. And that brought with it many complications, not only in terms of volume of users, but also in diversity of science domains, types of institutions and politics. I always listed sociology as the top obstacle to high throughput computing and we have our fair share in the Open Science Grid."

"Today’s quantum ecosystem is extremely vibrant, and there is a lot of energy and focus on particular questions"