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- [Background Voice] Five, four, three, two, one.

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- People who study mathematics, engineering,

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and science are often musicians.

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The thought processes involved in math

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are the same thought processes involved in music.

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The two are kind of linked in the brain.

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(dinging)

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I never would have had the life that I have had

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had it not been for the U.S. Navy.

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So, I think the biggest lesson in life is that

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you never know where life is going to take you.

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So, what we want to do is take advantage of

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every opportunity we can to prepare ourselves

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so that when opportunities come to do

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great and unusual things, we are ready

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for those opportunities.

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When I was growing up as a youngster

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I was always interested in science and technology.

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I'm the kind of kid that bought batteries

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and light bulbs and hooked them up.

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I opened up my toys at Christmas

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to see how they worked.

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But in those days, in my segregated schools,

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there was no one to tell us what engineering was,

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there was no exposure to engineering.

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I went to college to major in music

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^because that's where I thought I'd be at best.

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^You know, if you look down through history,

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^quite often it's people you don't expect

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who rise to certain levels.

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If you look at the people like invented

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the airplane, it wasn't Ph.D. engineers,

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it was bicycle mechanics.

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I'm one of those people who are unexpected.

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If you had walked into my segregated classroom

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in the 1950s, nobody would have picked any of us.

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Nobody would have picked me and said,

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"You are gonna do something out of the ordinary.

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"You're gonna do something great."

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(dinging)

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(clapping)