mimoSite Programming and some other things

[It is like] shearing a piglet…a lot of squealing and very little wool

Vladimir Putin, quoted by The Economist in 'Travels and travails'

Infinite monkeys impractical - seeking talented developers instead

Austin Digital (GE Aviation) job ad title

I think he was taken aback. (He might not have been. It can be hard to tell with engineers.)

Frances Woolley in 'The lunch problem'

He has a great work ethic when he is in the mood

My wife

A Book on Those Geometric Constructions Which Are Necessary for a Craftsman

A Book on What Is Necessary from the Science of Arithmetic for Scribes and Businessmen

Titles of X century mathematical texts by Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī 

And so I dream of a day when the only people who suffer from money-losing investments are the money-losing investors, whose only penance is lost money.

Ryan Avent of The Economist in 'The wages of sin'

...activist investors seeking to crack Japan have fared only slightly better than the Christian missionaries of the 16th century (who were crucified).

The Economist in 'Goodbye, Mr Bond?'

The resource that is in shortest supply is usually time, since there is no way to create more of it.

Raymon Chen in Microspeak: booked

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

John le Carré in ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'.

 Apple Computer is now unlikely to survive its current crisis

Brad de Long in The Corporation as a Command Economy (originally written in 1997)