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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided."

"What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation."

"I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks."

"The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws."

"I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work."

"It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that."
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