"I believe they have breached the walls," Spock said with his characteristic understatement.

But in the end, he said, with characteristic understatement, "I just decided it would be important enough to do it."

"The idea of shaping the network was interesting," Werner says, with characteristic understatement.

"I was just happy to play," Ward said with characteristic understatement.

"No, not much," he said, with characteristic understatement, adding: "My mother has a couple of nice pieces."

"It's nice to be able to pick up the check when I go out to dinner," he says with characteristic understatement.

"It's kind of ironic," he said with characteristic understatement.

"I know this isn't exactly the kind of merchandising you were talking about," Sydney says with characteristic understatement.

"I'm just having an awful lot of fun right now," he said, with what appears to be characteristic understatement.

"At the margin, we have done some things," the Mayor says with characteristic understatement.