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.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

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.

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.

Americans are following a stampede to the financial slaughterhouse. Let us stop following them and go in the other direction.

Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.