“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Work
John C. Dvorak on Computers and Business
“In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.” Continue reading
Mark Twain on Procrastination
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” Continue reading
Jerome K. Jerome on Work
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” Continue reading
Edgar Bergen on Work
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” Continue reading
Charles Peters on Politics
“Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.” Continue reading
Elbert Hubbard on Vacations
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” Continue reading
Samuel Johnson on Work
“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.” Continue reading
Victor Hugo on Thought
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.” Continue reading
Floyd Dell on Idleness
“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.” Continue reading
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