Quotes of the Week

"If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble." -- Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.

"My handwriting was the despair of my teachers. But my classmates gave me the nickname Einstein." --Professor Stephen Hawking on his student days.

"I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something." --Virginia Thomas, wife of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in a voice mail left for Anita Hill asking her to apologize for accusing the Justice of sexual harassment in 1991.