It was goal No. 1. It's always the hope that the team can start off (the season) with a win. It's nice bringing home some hardware.

We're optimistic as an industry. We hope to keep aging baby boomers skiing as long as we can, while seeing them bring their children and grandchildren to the slopes.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies.

I hope it gives us a little bit of confidence, but it's only the fourth game of the season. The situation today was really miserable for both teams, but we scored nine runs early which carried us through. I wish we could have hit a little better after the fourth inning, but we didn't. We just have to keep working and practicing hard.

We hope that this program will lead people, especially those who care about design, to look at Times Square with fresh eyes.

Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might do some good, but that's not why I do it.