"There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around."

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"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

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"The office' is a cemetery of dreams."

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"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."

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Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Work, Laziness, Industry, Discipline

"Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't expect that only the best people will be promoted."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

Work, Education, Ethics, Honesty

"And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."

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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality."

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"So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort."

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"In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology."

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"We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet."

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"Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion."

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"There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China."

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"Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space."

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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."

"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

"The office' is a cemetery of dreams."

"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."

"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."

"Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't expect that only the best people will be promoted."

"And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain."

"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."

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"My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality."

"So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort."

"We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure."

"The computer would do anything you programmed it to do."

"We live in a very complex world."

"In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology."

"We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet."

"Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion."

"There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China."

"Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space."