The first bullet is one of Yogi Berra's many insightful quotations, cited at http://www.ctg.albany.edu/resources/htmlrpt/uig_seminar4/presentation/tsld094.htm,
http://www.infonortics.com/searchengines/bath1997/look/tsld002.htm, and elsewhere.
Let me suggest that the end for which we all should be aiming is "a record of which we can be proud!"
And, incidentally, that record will be based upon more than a simple "reading of our lips."