“Because I wasn't Asian enough- they decided to hire an Asian Consultant.”

— Margaret Cho

Because I was fucking it up as an Asian. She would follow me around: "Margaret! Use chopsticks! And when you're done eating, you can put them in your hair. Now you're wearing shoes, which is something we don't do in the house. Now I'm just going to leave this abacus right here..."
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American stand-up comedian 1968

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“If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic has the experience to know the context of a managerial problem well enough to give specific advice about a specific situation.”

James G. March (1928–2018) American sociologist

On academic consultants.
Ideas as Art (2006)

“I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.”

Alan Kay (1940) computer scientist

ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 - Dec/Jan 2004-2005 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
2000s, A Conversation with Alan Kay, 2004–05

“[I] could not design forms and colors that would achieve some preconceived result... I wasn't going to hire them. I was more interested in working WITH them than in their working for me.”

Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) American artist

Quote from Rauschenberg, Andrew Forge, H.N. Abrams, New York n.d., p. 12
1980's

“…I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.”

Akio Morita (1921–1999) Japanese businessman

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 145.

“I am apt to hire musicians sometimes because I know they will have some good jokes to tell.”

Mark Heard (1951–1992) American musician and record producer

Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary

“Competence? It's a problem for each deputy. If I want to hire a prostitute for my office, I'll hire her. If I want to hire my mother, I'll hire her. It'll be my problem.”

Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect

About the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution that would ban nepotism in public sectors. Câmara discute nesta terça projeto que proíbe nepotismo nos três Poderes http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vida-publica/camara-discute-nesta-terca-projeto-que-proibe-nepotismo-nos-tres-poderes-ae4kwcuwkopja36kryzji3w3y. Gazeta do Povo (5 March 2007).