I like Doug Stanhope's take on life - something along the lines of 'life is like a movie; not everyone stays on till the end; if movie is not progressing the way you imagine, it's ok to walk out';

Arday wanted all the attention/awards/book deals, but didn't want put basic effort to hide his tracks.

for his thesis, if he had gone the route of translate(english->spanish->vietnamese->arabic->english), he could have 1) beat plagiarism 2) gotten few more ideas of how to extend the original thesis to new directions. /s in case someone is taking this seriously.