to his co-workers at Life
Attributed
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“They work just fine, thank you.”
When asked how the Heisenberg Compensators aboard the Enterprise work. "Reconfigure the Modulators!" TIME magazine (28 November 1994) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981892,00.html
Remark at the International PEN Club conference, Sept 11-13 1941, reproduced in John Dos Passos: The Major Nonfictional Prose, ed. Donald Pizer
“Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn't happen.”
Source: Via @mikko on https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1153964272793395200 Twitter, July 2019
The Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 41
“I decided that the devil finds work for idle hands and thanked him for his suggestion.”
Home is the Hangman (1975)
2000s, 2001, I Can Hear You, the Rest of the World Hears You (September 2001)
2011, Remarks on death of Osama bin Laden (May 2011)
Context: Tonight, we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who’ve worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. The American people do not see their work, nor know their names. But tonight, they feel the satisfaction of their work and the result of their pursuit of justice.
We give thanks for the men who carried out this operation, for they exemplify the professionalism, patriotism, and unparalleled courage of those who serve our country.
