“When you worked in a profession whose tools included guns and bombs, death was always on the menu; only a matter of time until the order you placed arrived…”

— Steve Perry

Source: The Tejano Conflict (2014), Chapter 6

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American writer 1947

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1981

“Riding somewhere was always a happy thing. First of all: as long as you're moving, you haven't arrived. As long as you haven't arrived, you don't have to work. Riding in truck gives you time to recover. Second: when you ride, you come to some place that couldn't care less about you. you can't be yelled at or beaten by a tree. Under a tree, yes but the tree can't help that.”

Herta Müller book The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 50

“The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion— very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check. However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu.”

P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

“No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him. There is always work,
And tools to work withal, for those who will;
And blessed are the horny hands of toil.”

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

A Glance Behind the Curtain (1843)

“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

“The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

“I know, you want to make a citizen's arrest of anyone whose menu lists "Idaho potato baked in it's skin," but you can't.”

Roy Blount Jr. (1941) American writer

Alphabet Juice (2008), p. 155.

“… well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you – if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers – the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.”

Fred Brooks (1931) American computer scientist

As quoted [paraphrased] from * http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-1999/jw-07-toolbox.html
Java World
1999
July
Toolbox

“You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.”

Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister

Надо исполнять закон всегда, а не только тогда, когда схватили за одно место.
Interview, 4 November 2003
2000 - 2005

“Eternal #GTD paradox: when you get the principle, the tool doesn't matter. But simultaneosly it matters so much more.”

David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author

16 February 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/9169795220
Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

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