If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material.

I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers. The writers are in it for other reasons. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. All you get is the pleasure of a completed task.