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Work Quotes by Douglas Adams
- Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to…
- One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take…
- Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.
- Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the…
- We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't…
- And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to…
- In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica…
- I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.
- In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century…
- He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so…
- The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics…
- The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking…
- I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
More Work Quotes
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson