She had a ball. Before she was limited by her mom saying, 'This one's going to work and this one isn't.' So, it's like (Katie) went shopping, and she gets to pick the different fabric for the garments.

I think the market is saying that the Dow has been flat for a year. If you look at the Nasdaq, it's up 40 percent year to year. And so the Nasdaq is going to correct probably quicker than the Dow, or the Dow will tread water, while the Nasdaq continues to come in.

(The students) tried to address the needs that (Katie and her mother) gave, and I think they came up with some pretty creative solutions.

I wanted to have students exposed to, very practically, designing for someone who had an actual need. They take the skills they learn in the functional design class and actually solve a problem.

The price increases are at levels that are catastrophic for most people. Everybody you talk to is saying that they have to cut down on other expenses just to put gasoline in their car or to pay their utility bills. And I can't predict that prices are going to go down. I wish I could.

It was out of character for him to do this. He just kept saying that he had a surprise for us tomorrow and, of course, I didn't know what kind of surprise he had.