• I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. (Jerome K Jerome)
• I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. ("Q")
• Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress. (Scott McNealy)
• If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living. (Dave Barry)
• We can dispense with the pleasantries, Commander. I am here to get you back on schedule. ("Darth Vader")
• I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. (Douglas Adams)
• Police-mentality planners design workplaces the way they would prisons: optimized for containment at minimal cost. (Tom DeMarco)
• In an information economy, the most valuable company assets drive themselves home every night. If they are not treated well, they do not return the next morning. (Peter Chang)
• Cubicles have become such an icon of nasty workplaces that it's shocking that the companies who manufacture them still have the chutzpah to pretend that they're efficient, productive, and pleasant. (Joel Spolsky)
• Today's [open plan] office is a wasteland. It saps vitality, blocks talent, frustrates accomplishment. It is the daily scene of unfulfilled intentions and failed effort. (Robert Propst)
•  Arranged row upon row in air-conditioned rooms, waited upon by crisp, young, white-shirted men who move softly among them like priests serving in a shrine, the computers go about their work quietly and, for the most part, unseen by the public. (Time Magazine in 1965)
• The gray cubicles that surround your IT staff are high and closed off. The fluorescent lights illuminating the windowless basement space shine harshly on the code-inscribed whiteboards, the only adornments on the dingy walls. Excess hardware, outdated software manuals and tangles of power cords haphazardly reside in the common areas. (Cheryl Asselin in 2004)
• Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. (Doug Larson)
• First question in the Management Quiz: Do you believe that anything you don't understand must be easy to do? (Scott Adams)
• A product manager can be defined as someone who has all of the responsibility and none of the power. (Guy Kawasaki)
• The ablest brains did not climb to the top of the stairs. Seniority and society were the dominant factors in army promotion. Deportment counted a great deal. Brains came a bad fourth. (David Lloyd George)
• Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy. (Huey P Long)
• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. (W C Fields)
• If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. (Harry Banks)
• One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. (G M Weilacher)
• Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. ("Archibald Putt")
• In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. (Bill Gates)
  
  

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