Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.