"Hewlett Packard at one point had only three private offices. One belonged to Hewlett, one to Packard, and the third to a guy named Paul Ely who annoyed so many coworkers with his bellowing on the phone that the company finally extended his cubicle walls to the ceiling."

-- Robert X. Cringely

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“Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.”

Source : Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.118, Simon and Schuster
“I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.”
“That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.”
“The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.”
“When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name. And he gave me Sojourner because I was to travel up and down the land showing the people their sins and bein' a sign unto them. I told the Lord I wanted two names 'cause everybody else had two, and the Lord gave me Truth, because I was to declare the truth to the people.”
“Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.”
“Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.”

Source : Jimmy Demaret (1954). “My Partner, Ben Hogan”, New York ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill Book Company
“I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.”

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