What belief about work, family, money, or success took you longest to recognise as wrong?

I always thought I was able and competent all the while I was rearing them.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people, and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I always felt like I could blow it and nothing would never happen until this happened.

I had followed the experts and put the money I had in television.

When I look back at my role as labor secretary, I regret that I didn't fight harder. I mean, inside the meeting rooms in the old executive office building and the cabinet office, and even when I was talking in private to the president - President Clinton, I did try to argue my case, but I feel, in retrospect, I should have argued even more passionately. Maybe I even should have threatened to resign.

In retrospect, I certainly think it would have been much better from a public relations viewpoint not to have played the games, because I did respect President Kennedy a great deal.

I always thought superintelligence was a long way off and we could worry about it later, and the problem for now is just to make these more intelligent. I wish I'd thought sooner about what was going to happen.