People always take great care of their horses. If they were to overwork a horse and make it ill, it would cost something for medicine and the veterinary surgeon, to say nothing of the animal’s board and lodging…

Money is the cause of poverty because it is the device by which those who are too lazy to work are enabled to rob the workers of the fruits of their labour…

One of the pioneers of robotics has written: ‘In the next century inexpensive but capable robots will displace human labour so broadly that the average workday would have to plummet to practically zero to keep everyone employed…

I don’t like work. I’d rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done…

Stretch a bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time…

I mend a puncture on my bike. I get pleasure out of being able to do simple, practical jobs…

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.

Just as I dress and go out to visit the professor and exchange a few more or less insincere compliments with him, without really wanting to at all, so it is with the majority of men day by day and hour by hour in their daily lives and affairs…

Evidently this new career wasn’t all thrills. There were spills, too, for some, maybe for me…

Linus sipped his drink and said, “You know, from what I’ve seen, at twenty you know you’re not going to be a rock star…

Whatever a man’s position may be, he is bound to take a view of human life in general that will make his own activity seem important and good…