My wife is a fiercely logical person, and she's famous for getting into arguments where she presents facts and people just don't want to listen to them.

I've learned that you can't save the world by yourself. If something is important enough to argue, you've got to appeal to emotion first. For better or worse it's the only way. It's been especially true with my own family, which is extremely illogical. I've just got to make my own decisions and let them take them or leave them. My mother's in her 70s, for example. I'm not going to change the way she feels about most things.

It's funny. We've started catching up on the old Star Trek: Voyager series which we missed in the 90s. My wife keeps saying, "Why doesn't anyone listen to the Vulcan?"