Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, … - Connie Willis

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Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength. . . and his weakness.

Connie Willis

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

Filled Out, Forgiving, Incompetence, Long, Management, Thing

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I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

Christie, Dames, Everything, Plot

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

Actually, Groceries, Heard, List, Lists

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Book, Faith, Fiction, Future, Matter, May

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

Bread Pudding, Cheesecake, Eye, Pudding, Thinking, Thought

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L. A. to Dickens's London.

Imaginary, London, Raymond, Writes, Writing

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In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

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Obviously this is the next frontier - once you've mastered grilling, smoking is what you're going to want to do.

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Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength. . . and his weakness.

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Dennis Prager

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

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Zygmunt Bauman

Freedom is the slogan which speaks to the ears of people who feel strong enough to manage on their own using their own resources, who can do without dependency because they can do without others caring for them.

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