“It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.”

—  Alan Kotok

on business travel; quoted in [John E. McNamara, Remembering Alan's Humor, 2006, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-memoria/2006Jun/0009.html, 2006-12-26]

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