“Stealing is OK as long as it's done well.”
From quote section of Ultima VIII: Pagan (1994), referring to stealing items in-game
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Richard Garriott 3
video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur 1961Related quotes
“What is done in love is done well.”
I was passionate about a lot of things in the performing arts, so I was lucky ballet wasn’t the only love in my professional life. I wanted to perform, and I didn’t feel ballet was going to allow me to do that to the extent that I wanted to. Acting seemed like a good transition from that.
Interview with Glamour Magazine (26 April 2017)
“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
New England Reformers
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
“What is well done is done soon enough.”
First Week, First Day.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
2010s, 2016, January, Speech at (18 January 2016)
“Whatever is done well enough is done quickly enough.”
Sat celeriter fieri, quidquid fiat satis bene.
In Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, II., 25.
Cf. Shakespeare, Macbeth I. vii, "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly".
“Well done is better than well said.”
Poor Richard's Almanack (1737)