With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

The cross was designed to defeat Satan, who by deception had obtained squatters’ rights to the title of the earth.

The great move mountains

A man who truly loves his wife is loved by the entire world

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

Fate keeps on happening.

Belts are only good for holding up your pants

I believe that we're only as strong as our neighbor is, and the idea that, I'm my brother's keeper works for me.

Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

I take a lot of favorite moves from great players and add them to my repertoire.