Noted & quoted.

• Position: SOUNDBITES

'If you get too tired to do your job, close your eyes for a moment and then get back to work.'

--Zhou Liwei, a government spokesman in Liaoning, China, to workers who are vaccinating the country's 5.2 billion chickens against bird flu. [Associated Press, November 18]

'[Parents] want you to be a doctor or a lawyer, but they are starting to understand that you can have a real job making games.'

--A student of video-game design at Parsons School of Design in New York. [The New York Times, November 22]

'You show the world you're...