23 quotes
A man so wrapped in secrecy that his shadow doesn’t have a high enough security clearance to stick to his heels.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
Never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by jet lag.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
There is good management and bad management: good management is like air—you don’t know it’s there until it’s gone away.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
What price an immortal soul, when booty beckons?
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
Any sufficiently advanced lingerie is indistinguishable from a lethal weapon.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
We’re living through the end times, but not in any Biblical sense—the religions of the book have got their eschatology laughably wrong.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
I’m stranded in limbo, otherwise known as downtown Denver.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
Sometimes people do good things for bad reasons, and sometimes people do bad things for good reasons. He isn’t sure which this is yet, but he’s hoping for the former.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
Me, I’m here because I can’t get out, and while I’m locked in the asylum I might as well take notes on the inmates.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
I tend to believe that the difference between us and them is that we don’t compromise our principles for temporary convenience.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
I am at a loss for words to describe my lack of eagerness to go there.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
Pay no attention to the gill slits and fins, they’re signs of grace. It’s come to a pretty pass when the bastard spawn of the Deep Ones turn into Presbyterian fundamentalists, hasn’t it?
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
You win some, you lose some. And when you lose, you have to pull yourself together and go back for more. Otherwise, the other side wins by default.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
We’re up the highway from Colorado Springs. The holy rollers are big in Colorado. Mostly they’re harmless, ’long as you’re not a young woman in search of an abortion.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
“Well…thanks. But I don’t like to make assumptions.”
“Well that’s too bad, because you’re running on false ones.”
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
I do something I never do in hotel rooms, which is to pick up the TV remote for a purpose other than hammering the “off” button.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
Time is the one thing money can’t buy.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
Ninety-eight percent of management work in this organization is routine. The other two percent is a tightrope walk over an erupting volcano without a safety net. Congratulations: here’s your balance pole.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
I’m thinking on the fly, here. (Although now that I’m in middle management I think I’m supposed to call it “refactoring the strategic value proposition in real time with agile implementation,” or, if I’m being honest, “making it up as I go along.”)
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
They’re outside the Nicene Creed and they’re not actually Christians, although they think they are—like the Mormons. But while the Book of Mormon is just a nineteenth-century fabrication there’s stuff in here that’s, uh, disturbing. Very disturbing, Bob.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)