I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.

... before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. What did it matter what anyone knew or ignored? What did it matter who was manager? One gets sometimes s

"Hey, Sam, how about a loan?" "Whattaya need?" "Oh, about $500." "Whattaya got for collateral?" "Whattaya need?" "How about an eye?"

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their

Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.