In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It’s called Karoshi. I don’t want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.

I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.

I rank money higher than social life or meaning because once you have money, those other things are easier to get. For example, you won't have much of a social life if you can't afford to do anything. And you can't make money if your health is a mess.

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.