“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.”

“It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which...”

“Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”

“No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.”

“Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”

“Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.”

“Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.”

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the me...”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”