There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar.

I try to avoid giving advice.

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.