"Subcontractors, quite frankly, are project whores."
"The joys of being a project manager... what a bunch of crap."
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me."
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
"You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledgehammer on the construction site."
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
"Tesla came over from Graz and went to work for Thomas Edison. Edison couldn't stand Tesla for several reasons. One was that Tesla showed up for work every day in formal dress - morning coat, spats, top hat and gloves - and this just wasn't the American Way at the time. Edison also hated Tesla because Tesla invented so many things while wearing these clothes."
"It's a nice hobby, but what are you going to do for a living?"
"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."
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Martin Fowler
, From book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code"
For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics. It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past.
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"
"What's the point of succeeding if failing feels good too?"
"We don't have a lot of time on this Earth. We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to spend time in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day."
"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."
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Will Rogers
, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes"