The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

It is better for any of you to carry a load of firewood on his own back than to beg from someone else.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

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