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?

Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

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.