Job. 1001 Best Things Ever Said about WORKeBook

 
1001 Best Things Ever Said about WORK
 
 
 
 
 




Competition

 


Job. 1001 Best Things Ever Said about WORK


The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. — Andrew Carnegie


Choose the right moment to bad-mouth your rivals. A "good" rat will attack only three times a month, for up to five minutes at a time. — Joep Schrijvers


Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm. — C. Wright Mills


Never battle with a man who has nothing to lose, for then the conflict is unequal. — Baltasar Gracian


The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation. — Charles Horton Cooley


The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. — Lao Tzu




Computers


The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. — Werner von Braun


Job. 1001 Best Things Ever Said about WORK


A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind. — Joseph Weizenbaum


To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. — from 1978 Farmer's Almanac


Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster? — Walter Mossberg


Some things were never meant to be solved. — Unknown wise person in response


To err is human — and to blame it on a computer is even more so. — Robert Orben


Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. — Andy Rooney


Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? — Steve Polyak


In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would take many men many months to equal it. — Merle L Meacham


Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create. — Laurence J. Peter


The computer is a moron. — Peter Drucker


Job. 1001 Best Things Ever Said about WORK


The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. — Sydney J. Harris


The bigger the bore, the greater the knowledge of computers. — Unknown wise person


Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. — Pablo Picasso





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