I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.

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.

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.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

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

There are now some mountains that my brain can no longer climb.

I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.