AugustAptorisms

Some felicitous quotes overheard last month:

"We're the greatest employer of philosophers in the country, except for McDonalds." - (JdO)
"The problem was that they never realized what the real problem was." - (BD)
"Security is the intersection of risk and functionality." - (LH)
"Let's take the most salubrious model of the U.S. Government: we're all pulling in the same direction." - (JD)
"There's a difference between motivation and manipulation — though some managers may not appreciate it."
"He admitted to having 2% more ego than he needed to do the job." - (BD)
"Get me a 'Yes' lawyer! Get me a 'No' lawyer!" - (JD)
"He's a wonderful rudder — he's great at steering an organization, but only after somebody else gets it moving." - (BD*)
"The crucial distinction is between choking and panicking" - (AP*)
"People need rules to get back to a safe state, the same way satellites do. When things become scary, we need to remember how to hunker down."
"Did they make you write this piece of crap, or did you come up with it all by yourself?" - (BL)
"The Messiah for an idea can effectively block everyone else from working on it." - (BD)
"You can be both perfectly right and perfectlly useless." - (JD*)
"The Office of Conventional Wisdom is always open for business." - (WMcK*)
"Their problem is that they assume every other country either has an Anglo Saxon culture, or wishes that it did." - (BD*)
"We have to empty the barrel of the obvious." - (CD)
"That thought makes my hair hurt!" - (AD)

(* = slightly edited by ^z)

Friday, September 01, 2000 at 10:00:38 (EDT) = 2000-09-01