Cubes Quote Posted by melisa Thursday Feb 5, 2009 Tags: z/OS & OS390 Comments: No Comments

I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. — Jerome K Jerome

I’m not good in groups. It’s difficult to work in a group when you’re omnipotent. — Q

Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress. — Scott McNealy

If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living. — Dave Barry

It’s this whole gung-ho superorganism thing that I just can’t get. I try, but I just don’t get it. What is it, I’m supposed to do everything for the colony and…what about my needs? — Woody Allen

We can dispense with the pleasantries, Commander. I am here to get you back on schedule. — Darth Vader

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams

Police-mentality planners design workplaces the way they would prisons: optimized for containment at minimal cost. — Tom DeMarco

In an information economy, the most valuable company assets drive themselves home every night. If they are not treated well, they do not return the next morning. — Peter Chang

Cubicles have become such an icon of nasty workplaces that it’s shocking that the companies who manufacture them still have the chutzpah to pretend that they’re efficient, productive, and pleasant. — Joel Spolsky

Today’s [open plan] office is a wasteland. It saps vitality, blocks talent, frustrates accomplishment. It is the daily scene of unfulfilled intentions and failed effort.

Arranged row upon row in air-conditioned rooms, waited upon by crisp, young, white-shirted men who move softly among them like priests serving in a shrine, the computers go about their work quietly and, for the most part, unseen by the public. — Time Magazine

The gray cubicles that surround your IT staff are high and closed off. The fluorescent lights illuminating the windowless basement space shine harshly on the code-inscribed whiteboards, the only adornments on the dingy walls. Excess hardware, outdated software manuals and tangles of power cords haphazardly reside in the common areas. — Cheryl Asselin

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. — Doug Larson

First question in the Management Quiz: Do you believe that anything you don’t understand must be easy to do? — Scott Adams

A product manager can be defined as someone who has all of the responsibility and none of the power. — Guy Kawasaki

The ablest brains did not climb to the top of the stairs. Seniority and society were the dominant factors in army promotion. Deportment counted a great deal. Brains came a bad fourth.
— David Lloyd George

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy. — Huey P Long

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. — W C Fields

If at first you do succeed – try to hide your astonishment. — Harry Banks

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. — G M Weilacher

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. — Archibald Putt

ManagementSpeak: Individual Contributor. Translation: Employee who does real work. — Juergen Rudnick

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you play with them. — Richard Feynman

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, “Certainly, I can!”. Then get busy and find out how to do it. — Theodore Roosevelt

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. — A A Milne

In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos. — Thomas Armstong

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. — John C Dvorak

If a company won’t trust me to use the Internet effectively, I don’t care to work for them. — Mike Gunderloy

Whenever you hear the phrase “mean and lean”, replace it with what it really connotes: failing and frightened. — Tom DeMarco

We’re all working harder and faster. But unless we’re having fun the transformation doesn’t work. — Jack Welch

Treating your rocket scientist employees as if they were still in kindergarten is not an isolated phenomenon. Almost every company has some kind of incentive program that is insulting and demeaning. — Joel Spolsky

We trained hard – but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing. And what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization. — Gaius Petronius Arbiter

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. — John Cleese