twenty-seven years and one million words
As I watch for phone-surfing drivers, I've never noticed someone with a passenger in the car use his phone while driving. All of the phone-surfing drivers were alone.
Three drivers out of 30 cars had their phones in hand this AM - the average hovers around 1/6 to 1/10. That is way, way, too many.
One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.
—John Boyd, US Air Force