Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.

Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

I would love to have the power to stop waking at 3 a.m. every night to check my e-mail.

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

My favorite method of procrastination is to do something else that needs doing, but not quite so imminently. Sleeping is also good, as is drinking until you really can't do anything very well anymore.